NO. 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NO. 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 14, GREAT BEDFORD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396176
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: NO. 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NO. 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 14, GREAT BEDFORD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396176
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: NO. 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NO. 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 14, GREAT BEDFORD 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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Location

Statutory Address:: NO. 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 14, GREAT BEDFORD 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 74527 65667

Details

GREAT BEDFORD STREET (East side) No.14 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: GREAT BEDFORD STREET Nos.12 AND 13) 12/06/50

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Terrace house. c1790-1793 with C19 and C20 additions. By John Palmer. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble to basement, ashlar and rubble to rear, double pile parapeted roof, covering not visible to front, Welsh slate to rear, coped party walls to left and right: to right partially rebuilt in brick, to left with two ashlar stacks probably shared with No. 12 Great Bedford Street (qv). House at junction of Great Bedford Street with St James's Square has wedge-shaped plan, five-bays to front, two-bays to rear. Staircase to rear. EXTERIOR: Four storeys and basement; five-window range. First floor has five C19 plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals with lowered stone sills with wrought iron balconettes. Second floor has five six/six sashes in plain reveals with stone sills with wrought iron balconettes. Third floor has five similar windows with balconettes to left, right and centre. Sashes with horns to centre left and centre right. Ground floor has four plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills. Six-panel door to centre right has flush and fielded panels, cast iron wreath knocker, three-pane overlight in pedimented Doric doorcase. Pennant paved crossover flush with pavement. Basement has four six/six sashes in plain reveals with stone sills. To centre left paired with continuous sill, six-panel door with beaded and glazed panels. Limestone area steps with pennant treads and wrought iron handrail. Band course over ground floor, frieze and moulded cornice over second floor. Moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet. Lead hopperhead and down pipe to centre front. Rear elevation partially visible. Eight/eight sash to second floor. Six/six-horned sashes with simple balconettes to second floor. C20 windows to second half landing. INTERIOR: Recorded by Bath Preservation Trust in 1991. Four flight stone cantilevered staircase, two newel posts on ground floor, one mushroom and one acorn knob. Ornate ceiling roses and an arch dividing the drawing room with decorative scrolls supporting. Eleven wall panels in the ground floor dining room, enclosed by reeding banded with ribbon. Old brass doorbell and folding butler¿s table in hall. Original trivet on hob grate in third floor rear bedroom. Cellar has stone wine racks and there is a billiard room in the basement. The outside door to the basement has metal security bars reinforcing it. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with cast arrowheads on limestone bases. HISTORY: Part of incomplete St James's Square development on land leased by Fielder, King, Hewlett and Broom from Sir Peter Rivers Gay 25 March 1790; Great Bedford Street forms one of the four diagonal approaches to St James's; it was intended to continue to NE but never completed. Nos. 7-11 were destroyed by bombing in 1942. SOURCES: (Abstract of title of Sir J F Rivers ... to property sold 1856: DEED PKT 2379 & MAPS; Harcourt Masters' maps 1794 and 1808; City Engineer's Survey of Air Raid Damage 1942).

Listing NGR: ST7452765667

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Legacy System number:: 511585
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.