27, 28 AND 29, WESTGATE STREET
27, 28 AND 29, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395653
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 27, 28 AND 29, WESTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 27, 28 AND 29, WESTGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395653
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 27, 28 AND 29, WESTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27, 28 AND 29, 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:
- 27, 28 AND 29, 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 74925 64781
Details
WESTGATE STREET 656-1/40/1847 (North side) Nos.27, 28 AND 29 11/08/72
GV II
Balanced composition of three houses with shops. c1790. MATERIALS: Ashlar limestone, roof not visible. EXTERIOR: Four storeys, each two windows wide, all glazing-bar sashes, six/six pane to first and second floors, three/three to attic; at first floor in moulded architraves, with straight cornice; there is one blind light, at second floor to No.29. The splay is one window wide, with the same details, and the return has a blind light and a corresponding sash at each level, widely spaced. There are modern shopfronts of no interest; entrance to 27a. First and second floors have continuous sill bands, and there are lintel with frieze and cornice above second floor. The attic storey has a further cornice with blocking course and parapet, but a wide pediment to No.28. Nos.27 and 28 have a deep stack to the left, and 29 a broad stack across the building centrally. At the rear Nos.27 and 28 are in rubble, with a scatter of sashes, mainly with glazing bars, No.29 is in ashlar, and there is a small cavetto cornice below ashlar blocking course and parapet to all three. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: A coherent Neoclassical rebuilding, creating a palace-fronted row in the manner of the Adam brothers. This site has a long earlier building history.
Listing NGR: ST7492564781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511066
- 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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