8, GEORGE STREET
8, GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395868
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 8, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8, GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395868
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 8, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, GEORGE 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:
- 8, GEORGE 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 74854 65123
Details
GEORGE STREET (South side) No.8 (Formerly Listed as: GEORGE STREET (South side) Nos 8-10 (consec), 10A and 10B, 11, 12 and 12A) 05/08/75
GV II
House, now shop with accommodation over. c1734 by John Wood the Elder, with a late C18 front (OS says building pre-1776), shop early C19 with C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar painted to first floor, single pitched slate mansard roof. PLAN: Single depth plan with long rear wing. EXTERIOR: Four storeys, single-window range. Coped parapet returned over left gable end, stopped cornice. Tripartite windows to upper floors with four/four panes to third floor, plate glass to second floor and two-light four-pane casement with lowered sill to first floor. Early C19 shop to ground floor has C20 glazed door to left with ornate spandrels flanking semi-circular pane in overlight, moulded cornice above curves forward over projecting shop window of five-panes with overlights and moulded sills; outer panes are curved at corners. Rear elevation not seen. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: This house would have been the easternmost of the row built by Wood the Elder in 1734 as the north-eastern termination of his Queen Square development, which was marked on his 1735 plan of Bath. The street was subsequently extended to the east by Daniel Milsom in the 1760s. There is a full-page advert in the Bath Directory 1864-5 p.27 for John C. Pooley, `Pharmaceutical Chemist¿. SOURCES: (Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992).
Listing NGR: ST7485465123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511282
- 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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