NO.23 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GRATING

NO.23 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GRATING, 23, MORFORD STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396121
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: NO.23 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GRATING
Statutory Address:: NO.23 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GRATING, 23, MORFORD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396121
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: NO.23 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GRATING
Statutory Address 1:: NO.23 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GRATING, 23, MORFORD STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NO.23 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GRATING, 23, MORFORD 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 74866 65587

Details

MORFORD STREET (West side) No.23 and attached railings and grating (Formerly Listed as: MORFORD STREET Nos.3-27 (Odd)) 11/08/72

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos 10-22 (consec) & No.1 Belvedere Place MORFORD STREET. Two terrace houses, now flats. c1775-1789 with C19 and C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to fronts, now painted, with timber bressumers over ground floors, rubble to basements, ashlar and rubble to rear, double pile mansard roofs, parapeted to front, with pantile to upper slopes, double Romans to lower slopes to front, Welsh Slate to lower slopes to rear, house to left has two ashlar left end stacks with some early clay pots, to right rendered stack to left end of front roof, L-plan stack rising from rear wall to left. EXTERIOR: Each house has three storeys, attic and basement, single bay two-window range. House to left has to first floor two paired plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with continuous stone sill and wrought iron balconette, second floor has two similar windows. Ground floor has to left six/six-horned sash in splayed reveal with stone sill, to right C20 five-panel door in stone porch with narrow sides breaking forward to support stone hood with reeded edge. Basement window now blocked. Single dormer with six/six-horned sash. Partial plinth, moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet rebuilt in reconstituted stone. House to right has to first floor two paired plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals with continuous stone sill, second floor has two paired six/six-sashes in plain reveals with continuous stone sill. Ground floor has to left plate glass horned sash in plain reveal with splayed jambs with stone sill, to right disused C20 six-panel door in plain reveal, concreted crossover. Basement has blocked window. Single dormer with six/six-horned sash. Moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet rebuilt in reconstituted stone. Rear elevations have six/six-sashes, with horns except to ground floor left and second floor right, C20 alterations to basements and C20 porch attached to house to left sheltering new rear access to flats. INTERIOR: Of house to left inspected, staircase to ground floor only; closed string stick baluster staircase with Doric newel with C20 alterations. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: House to right has attached wrought iron railings and gate with urn heads on limestone bases.

Listing NGR: ST7486665587

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Legacy System number:: 511535
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.