12 AND 12A, GEORGE STREET, 31, GAY STREET
12 AND 12A, GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395912
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 12 AND 12A, GEORGE STREET, 31, GAY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12 AND 12A, GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395912
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 12 AND 12A, GEORGE STREET, 31, GAY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12 AND 12A, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 31, 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:
- 12 AND 12A, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 31, 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 74822 65122
Details
GEORGE STREET (South side) Nos.12 AND 12A (Formerly Listed as: GEORGE STREET (South side)Nos. 8-10 (consec), 10A and 10B, 11, 12 and 12A)
12/06/50
GV II
Includes: No.31 GAY STREET. Right terminal of former three terrace houses. c1734 by John Wood the Elder. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched slate mansard roofs hipped to right corner with dormers and moulded stacks to party walls. PLAN: Double depth plans. EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attics. Continuous coped parapet, modillion cornice and upper floor sill bands returned to right, horned plate glass sash windows. No. 12 to left stepped back and three-window range. c1884 shop by Inman and Inman projects to line of No. 12 with banded pilasters to ground floor fronted by Composite pilasters on pedestals with urns crowning fluted piers to tops. Fascia with dentil cornice has good scrolled cast iron cresting. Set back half glazed double doors and tall overlight have moulded colonnettes at angles of plate glass windows that rest on open railings below sills fronting basement area. Nos. 12A and 31 Gay Street to right hand corner three-window range and wider than No. 12. c1884 shop by Inman and Inman (Graham Finch, Orbach says Wilson, Willcox and Wilson, 1872) has dentil cornice, pediment to each side supported by similar pilasters to those of No. 11. To left over triangular threshold with six-panel door and overlight to left and double half glazed doors to right. two-pane plate glass window to centre, set back double glazed doors and overlight under right hand pediment are flanked by curved plate glass panes. Return elevation to Gay Street (No. 31) has single window plain sash on floors above shopfront also 1884 by Inman and Inman, stone pilasters and fascia with acroteria above. Paired dormer in mansard, large stack with continuous range of pots to right. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: These houses are a part of a development leased off by John Wood in 1733 and probably complete by 1740; they formed part of the north-eastern termination of the Queen Square development, and are marked on Wood¿s 1735 plan of Bath. Crozier-Cole collection has drawing dated 1872 by Wilson, Willcox and Wilson for these shops. Nos. 12 and 12A were listed on 5th August 1975. SOURCES: (Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992 Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980: 228).
Listing NGR: ST7482265122
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511320
- 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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