TERRACE, STEPS, WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO NOS 1-6 (CONSEC)

TERRACE, STEPS, WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO NOS 1-6 (CONSEC), WIDCOMBE TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395780
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: TERRACE, STEPS, WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO NOS 1-6 (CONSEC)
Statutory Address:: TERRACE, STEPS, WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO NOS 1-6 (CONSEC), WIDCOMBE TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395780
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: TERRACE, STEPS, WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO NOS 1-6 (CONSEC)
Statutory Address 1:: TERRACE, STEPS, WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO NOS 1-6 (CONSEC), WIDCOMBE TERRACE

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:: TERRACE, STEPS, WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO NOS 1-6 (CONSEC), WIDCOMBE TERRACE

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 75784 64022

Details

WIDCOMBE TERRACE 656-1/42/1916 Terrace, steps, walls, piers and railings to Nos 1-6 (consec)

(Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET, Widcombe (West side) Raised pavement before Nos.1 to 6 Widcombe Terrace) 11/08/72

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Paved raised terrace with railings, gates and steps, and quadrant of steps with containing walls. c1805. Limestone ashlar, cast iron. Two major linked items, paved area across front of the Terrace (qv), and bold quadrant staircase leading up to rear of Terrace in Church Street. Broad stone-flagged paved area approached by broad flight of five steps with nosings, flanked by tall square piers carrying urns with pine cone cappings, between these simple overthrow. To right of paving, across full width of Terrace, continuous spiked railing on ashlar curb, with three gates to flights of steps down to garden areas separated by ashlar walls with copings. At far end of terrace an ashlar wall approximately 2m high with pair of rusticated piers carrying pine-cone urn finials, and with plank door. At north-west end of the Terrace, opposite double bows, low wall carrying spiked railing, stopped to square pier with pyramidal capping to left, then quadrant of eighteen sandstone steps, but all with ends still in the original limestone. To right coursed rubble wall with ramped flat coping, and to left ashlar wall to rounded flush coping, at lower end this is stopped to square pier, and at top to boundary wall. These elements are important part of total ensemble of Widcombe Terrace. SOURCES: Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England, Georgian Bath Historical Map (1989).

Listing NGR: ST7578464022

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 511191
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.