5, WIDCOMBE HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395759
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: 5, WIDCOMBE HILL
Statutory Address:: 5, WIDCOMBE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395759
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 5, WIDCOMBE HILL
Statutory Address 1:: 5, WIDCOMBE HILL

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:: 5, WIDCOMBE HILL

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 75816 64050

Details

WIDCOMBE HILL 656-1/42/1902 (South side) No.5 05/08/75

GV II

House in row. Late C17 or early C18 c1700, refronted late C18, with C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, rubble rear wall, wide-span double Roman tile roof. PLAN: Broad-fronted range, two storeyed to front. EXTERIOR: Three storeys to rear generated by fall across site, to left stable or outhouse with long sloping lean-to roof. Three windows, all twelve pane sash, but those to first floor deeper than to ground floor, and spaced unevenly, with flush six panel part-glazed door in architrave with keystone, off-centre, right, and with bottom-rail following slope of hill. Broad platband at first floor, and coped gables have two ashlar stacks to right, small cropped stack, left and further square stack to gable head. Lean-to left in rubble, with fixed nine pane light above plank and glazed garage doors. Rear retains much earlier fabric. Top floor has four light recessed ovolo mould casement with central king mullion under stopped drip, but lights all blocked, flanked by broad twelve pane sashes. Middle floor has full width drip course over five light casement, but outer lights blocked, formed from two two-light recessed ovolo mould casements, each now with only one glazed light, joined by inserted glazed light of almost equal width. To right three light unmodified casement. Lower ground floor has paired twelve pane sashes, with remains of ovolo mould casement to left, under drip course, but to left four pane sash. Central C20 glazed door in bolection-mould architrave has slab hood on carved console brackets with cornice moulds. To right broad wing with lean-to roof, with central panelled door. INTERIOR: Not inspected, but reported as having stone staircase. One of the earliest houses in this area, and one that retains a fine rear elevation which retains its original mullioned windows. The opening of the turnpike road to Bradford and Trowbridge may have led to the reversing of street fronts, and the later C18 refacing of the former rear elevation in fine ashlar. As such, the two elevations sum up the changes in Bath house-building over the course of the century, as well as the imposition of standard Palladian tastes in place of local vernacular traditions. SOURCE: Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England, Georgian Bath Historical Map (1989).

Listing NGR: ST7581664050

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Legacy System number:: 511170
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.