34, GAY STREET
34, GAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395832
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 34, GAY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 34, GAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395832
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 34, GAY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 34, 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:
- 34, 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 74820 65102
Details
GAY STREET (East side) No.34 (Formerly Listed as: GAY STREET Nos.31-40 (Consec)) 12/06/50
GV II
House, now shop with accommodation over. c1735-1740, altered late C19. By John Wood the Elder. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with slate mansard roof with dormers and moulded stack to right hand party wall. PLAN: Single depth plan, with rear wing. EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attic and basement. House lower than adjoining houses. Coped parapet and stopped cornice, plate glass sash windows with painted splayed reveals, six-panel door to left with semicircular cobweb fanlight. Canted c1870 shop window to right has dentil cornice to fascia, moulded colonnettes and a half-glazed door to their left between moulded pilasters and consoles to continued cornice. Two flat topped dormers with six/six sashes. Rear elevation with weatherboarded extension of 1882 by H.J. Garland, surveyor. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: This 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. The rear extension housed in the later C19 the photographic studio of William Friese-Green, pioneer of the moving image. 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: ST7482065102
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511240
- 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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