Flan O'brien's
FLAN O'BRIEN'S, 21, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395644
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Flan O'brien's
- Statutory Address:
- FLAN O'BRIEN'S, 21, WESTGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395644
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Flan O'brien's
- Statutory Address 1:
- FLAN O'BRIEN'S, 21, WESTGATE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed 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.
The scope of legal protection for listed 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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FLAN O'BRIEN'S, 21, WESTGATE STREET
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 74877 64778
Details
WESTGATE STREET 656-1/40/1843 (North side) No.21 Flan O'Brien's
Formerly Listed as: WESTGATE STREET (North side) No.21 County Wine Vaults) 05/08/75
GV II
Public house. c1860. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, concrete tile roof. PLAN: Narrow frontage, with splayed corner, and long return to Saw Close, to low hipped roof on deep bracketed eaves. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and basement, two+one+seven bays, all windows plain sash. First floor windows have form of cornice projecting from wall battered out between bays, in rhythm of one:two:two:one bays and on return, with clock in masonry surround at cornice level on splay. Ground floor has large plain arched windows set deep to arcade with splayed channelled piers with form of geometrical vermiculation to capitals, arches have shallow hollow profile, from which keys run out, cutting through moulded string-course. Doors to splay, also centre of long side, and to left hand end. Westgate Street basement access panel. Moulded plinth, stepped out to central doors, and deep eaves-band, broken through by top window heads, and deep open eaves with small fascia board and ogee gutter, on shaped wooden brackets. Two eaves stacks with band and bracketed cappings, and one to right, in Westgate Street. INTERIOR: The pub interior is all of recent date. HISTORY: This prominent corner building is designed in a fusion of traditional Georgian and fashionable Italianate styles, highly characteristic of this transitional period in Bath architecture, and characteristic also of mid-Victorian commercial building. SOURCES: Neil Jackson, 'Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture' (1991), 187.
Listing NGR: ST7487764778
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511057
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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