BOUNDARY MARKER OPPOSITE MACAULEY BUILDINGS

BOUNDARY MARKER OPPOSITE MACAULEY BUILDINGS, WIDCOMBE HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395760
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY MARKER OPPOSITE MACAULEY BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY MARKER OPPOSITE MACAULEY BUILDINGS, WIDCOMBE HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395760
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY MARKER OPPOSITE MACAULEY BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: BOUNDARY MARKER OPPOSITE MACAULEY BUILDINGS, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY MARKER OPPOSITE MACAULEY BUILDINGS, 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 76472 63889

Details

WIDCOMBE HILL 656-1/57/1903 (North side) Boundary marker opposite Macauley Buildings

II

Boundary marker. Dated 1827, but date hidden. Cast iron. Canted shaft with hipped top, base partly concealed by later paving, with raised painted inscriptions, to left WIDCOMBE, to right erased, but probably should be Claverton. Running vertically on narrow front facet, BATH TURNPIKE TRUST. HISTORY: one of a series of parish boundary markers erected in 1827 by the Bath Turnpike Trust during the period that John Loudon McAdam was engineer to the trust (1826-1836). Widecombe Hill was an important road link, connecting the city with Bradford and Trowbridge: it s marked as such on Harcourt Masters¿s 1793 map of Bath. SOURCES: Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England, Georgian Bath Historical Map (1989); Civil Engineering Heritage, Sievewright WJ: Wales and Western England (1986); 20 AVON.

Listing NGR: ST7647963892

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 511171
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.