32, GAY STREET
32, GAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395828
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 32, GAY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 32, GAY STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395828
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 32, GAY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 32, GAY 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:
- 32, GAY 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 74817 65113
Details
GAY STREET (East side) No.32 (Formerly Listed as: GAY STREET Nos. 31-40 (Consec)) 12/06/50
GV II
House, now shop with accommodation over. c1735-1740 with early and late C19 alterations. By John Wood the Elder. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate mansard roof with dormers and moulded stack to right hand party wall. PLAN: Double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Three-storeys with attic and basement. Three-window range, stepped slightly forward with returned coped parapet and cornice level with that of No. 33, and plate glass windows to upper floors, those to first floor with splayed reveals and lowered sills. To left of ground floor set back six-panel door with cobweb overlight. Projecting shop to right, early C19 altered in 1876 by C. Wibley, Builder flanked by panelled pilasters and fluted consoles to cornice, has six-plate glass panes and moulded sill to shop window, those to centre have segmental heads, those to sides have curved glass. Two flat-topped dormers, left one paired, all with plain sashes. Rear elevation not seen. INTERIOR: Inspected by Bath Council 1984. Original timber stairs with Doric newels. Very wide window to rear, now casement. HISTORY: Gay Street is named after Robert Gay, a surgeon of Hatton Garden and landowner of this area. Leases were granted a few months after the death of John Wood the Elder, in May 1754. The road forms a steeply rising link between Wood¿s two principal urban set-pieces. The southern part (now comprising Nos. 31-41 Gay Street) were originally known as Barton Street, and predated the remainder of the street by some twenty years. No. 32 is a part of an irregular terrace of three houses returned from George Street and developed in conjunction with Nos. 2-12 George Street (qv). The ground lease for the whole plot was taken by John Wood the Elder on 6th August 1733; the building leases were granted from 1734 on, and the Gay Street houses were inhabited and rated by 1740. This house looks as if it was probably one of the last built. This is the least cohesive and most altered stretch of Gay Street: hence its lower grade than the other sections. SOURCES: (Mowbray Green, `The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bath (1904), 140-143; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980: 130, 228; Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992).
Listing NGR: ST7481765113
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511236
- 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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