26 AND 27, MILSOM STREET
26 AND 27, MILSOM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395975
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 27, MILSOM STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26 AND 27, MILSOM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395975
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 26 AND 27, MILSOM STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26 AND 27, MILSOM 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:
- 26 AND 27, MILSOM 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 74936 65133
Details
MILSOM STREET (East side) Nos.26 AND 27 (Formerly Listed as: MILSOM STREET (East side) Nos.25-36 (Consec)) 12/06/50
GV II
Two houses, now single shop. c1761-1765, altered 1897 and late C20 (Council Minutes 459). Perhaps by Thomas Jelly, shopfront by J. Long and Son, Builder c1895. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, ashlar and rubble to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, artificial slate to front, Welsh slate to rear, with coped party wall to right of No.27 only with two ashlar stacks with some early clay pots. EXTERIOR: Each house has three storeys, attic, basement and three-window front. First floor has three six/nine sashes in ovolo moulded architraves splayed and further moulded with friezes and cornices, with pediment to centre, lowered sills not visible above shopfront. Second floor has three six/six sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills, with six/one sash to centre. Ground floor has late C19 continuous shopfront, altered late C20 (it can be seen in photographs of the 1897 Jubilee celebrations), with two three-light windows divided by timber mullions flanking pair of recessed glazed doors to centre with two-tier fascia and moulded cornice with open segmental pediment to centre. No openings to basement. Two single dormers to each house. No.26 to left with six/six sash, otherwise plate glass. Modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet to each house. Moulded lead hopperhead and downpipe to right shared with No.28 Milsom Street (qv). Rear elevation partially visible has full height canted bay to No.27 with six/six sashes to first floor, six/six sash to second floor right, two single dormers with plate glass and six/six sashes. No.26 has two hipped single dormers with six/six sashes. INTERIOR: Opened out to form large shop to ground and first floors, including single storey extensions to rear, first floor retains panelled shutters, chimney breast alcoves to rear room of No.27 have dentils to impost and moulded archivolts. SOURCES: (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: London: 1948-: 151; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 457; Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992-; The Bath Chronicle: Images of Bath: Derby: 1994-).
Listing NGR: ST7493665133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511384
- 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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