NO. 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND VAULTS

NO. 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND VAULTS, 2, FOUNTAIN BUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395743
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: NO. 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND VAULTS
Statutory Address:: NO. 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND VAULTS, 2, FOUNTAIN BUILDINGS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395743
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: NO. 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND VAULTS
Statutory Address 1:: NO. 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND VAULTS, 2, FOUNTAIN 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NO. 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND VAULTS, 2, FOUNTAIN 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 74996 65246

Details

FOUNTAIN BUILDINGS No.2 and attached railings and vaults (Formerly Listed as: FOUNTAIN BUILDINGS Nos. 1 AND 2) 12/06/50

GV II

House, now flats. c1775 with C20 alterations. Possibly by John Wood the Younger. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble below basement windows, not visible to rear, parapeted mansard roof, Welsh slate to front, not visible to rear, with coped party walls to left and right with ashlar stacks shared with Nos. 1 and 3 Fountain Buildings (qv). EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, five-window range. First floor has five six/six-horned sashes, two to left each with six further fixed panes added below, in splayed cyma moulded architraves with friezes and cornices, pediment to centre window, rising from stone sills, two to left lowered and with wrought iron balconettes. Second floor has five six/six-horned sashes in cyma-moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has four six/six-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, to centre six-panel door with flush, fielded and glazed panels in stone doorcase with cyma moulded architrave on flat surround with moulded brackets to moulded cornice, one step to pennant paved crossover. Basement has four windows, two to left blind, to right six/six-sashes, in plain reveals with splayed lintels with stone sills formed out of offset at top of plinth, three doorways and one full width opening to vaults, C20 area steps. One triple, one double and one single dormer with plate glass sashes. Timber bressumer to right and stone band course throughout over ground floor, bracketed eaves cornice and coped parapet continuous with No. 1 Fountain Buildings (qv). The change in masonry to ground floor left suggests reinstatement after removal of shopfront. Rear elevation not visible. INTERIOR: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped and formerly scrolled heads on limestone bases. HISTORY: this group of double-fronted houses were built by William Philips and others and incorporated an earlier house within their midst. SOURCES:(Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980: 138-40;

Listing NGR: ST7499665246

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 511153
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.