13 AND 14, GEORGE STREET
13 AND 14, GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395913
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 13 AND 14, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 13 AND 14, GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395913
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 13 AND 14, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 13 AND 14, 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:
- 13 AND 14, 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 74830 65147
Details
GEORGE STREET (North side) Nos.13 AND 14 05/08/75
GV II
Two terraced houses, now shops. No. 13 mid-C18 , No. 14 late C18, altered late C19. EXTERIOR: No. 13, painted limestone ashlar, three-window range with coped parapet. Two plate glass sash windows to right and late C19 shopfront with door and overlight to centre and turned colonnettes between three plate glass panes under fascia and cornice to left. No. 14 to right, limestone ashlar to facade and right return, rough ashlar to left return. Double depth plan. Three storeys with attic and basement, symmetrical five-window range. Double depth slate mansard roof with stacks to returns, three dormers, coped parapet that rises over gable ends of returns, returned parapet, second and first floor sill bands and ground floor platband, painted ground floor and timber bressumer to front. Six/six-pane sash windows to second floor, horned plate glass sashes to rest. Central six-panel door, glazed to top, has tall overlight. Right return has one attic window to right, window toward corners of upper floors, and one window to centre of ground floor, No window to left return. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: A wall plaque to right of door has a lengthy inscription to effect that these premises were occupied formerly, by philatelist Henry Stafford Smith (1834-1903) who, with his brother, published from 1863 onwards, pioneer philatelic journal "The Stamp Collector's Magazine"; from this evidence, Bath was identified as the birth-place of modern philately. SOURCES: (Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992).
Listing NGR: ST7483065147
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511322
- 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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