43, MILSOM STREET
43, MILSOM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396015
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 43, MILSOM STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 43, MILSOM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396015
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 43, MILSOM STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 43, 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:
- 43, 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 74961 65021
Details
MILSOM STREET (East side) No.43 (Formerly Listed as: MILSOM STREET (East side) Nos 43-45 (consec, No.46, No.47) 12/06/50
GV II
Former house, now offices of Royal Photographic Society. c1765, altered 1980. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched slate mansard roof with dormers and moulded stacks to right of house. PLAN: Double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attics, three-window range. Stepped coped parapet and stopped modillion cornice, eared architraves to second floor windows, first floor windows have lowered sills and moulded architraves, cornices to outer windows and pediment to centre. Plate glass sash windows, painted splayed reveals to first floor with `Circulating Library and Reading Room' painted on wall above, fluted Ionic pilasters flanking C20 door and blocked overlight to left and far right and moulded cornice and fascia over 1980 shop to right. To right good fluted lead rainwater head to lead downpipe. INTERIOR: Not inspected, but it is entrance to Royal Photographic Society gallery in old Octagon Chapel (qv). HISTORY: The house possesses a standard elevation, probably by Thomas Jelly; the 1980 shopfront (by Roy Worskett, of the local planning authority) may reuse part (especially the pilasters) of the early C19 shopfront. The painted advertisement is a fairly rare survival, and of interest. SOURCES: (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980-: 146; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 457; Deposited plans, Bath City Council: 1992-). Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992.
Listing NGR: ST7496165021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511426
- 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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