13 AND 14, WESTGATE BUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395633
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: 13 AND 14, WESTGATE BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: 13 AND 14, WESTGATE BUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395633
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 13 AND 14, WESTGATE BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: 13 AND 14, WESTGATE BUILDINGS

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 13 AND 14, WESTGATE BUILDINGS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 74878 64659

Details

WESTGATE BUILDINGS 656-1/40/1836 (West side) Nos.13 AND 14 05/08/75

GV II

Pair of houses, now offices with shops, part of former shallow crescent destroyed by bombing in 1942. c1775, with C19 and C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar front, rubble end and rear, slate roofs. PLAN: Large terrace houses, formerly part of long terrace, double mansard roofs, entrance and staircase to right. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, each three windows wide. No.13 has two dormers with plain sash above twelve-pane in moulded architraves, but plain sash to first floor, in architraves, and with cornices, pedimented to centre light, and sills on brackets. Ground floor has C19 pilaster shopfront with recessed central door, and to right six-panel door in warped doorway with architraves and deep scroll consoles to moulded slab cornice on pulvinated frieze. Deep platband above ground floor, modillion cornice with blocking course and parapet, and deep stacks to left. Rear has two casement dormers above replacement twelve-pane sashes mainly in squared rubble, but stair lights, left, in ashlar walling. No.14 similar, with plain sash in similar mouldings, but also with splayed surrounds. Ground floor has C19 pilaster shopfront, with panelled door and surround to right. End gable, rebuilt after bombing, has narrow plain sash at four levels, and deep flush double stacks. Rear has two wide spaced casement dormers, with triple eight:twelve:eight-pane sash at three levels, at ground and first floors with small straight drip course, and C20 doors with side-light to basement, contained in small area with railing. To left stair lights in ashlar walling, as to No.13. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: These buildings formed part of an original development continued to the south in St James Parade (qv). The ground on the west side of Westgate Buildings was leased by L. Clutterbuck on 07.10.1775, and No.17 to the south of this pair was auctioned as "new built" in February 1796 (Bath Chronicle). The street was largely destroyed by Bombing in April 1942. Listing NGR: ST7487864659

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Legacy System number:: 511046
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.