5-8, NORTHUMBERLAND PLACE
5-8, NORTHUMBERLAND PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396194
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 5-8, NORTHUMBERLAND PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 5-8, NORTHUMBERLAND PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396194
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 5-8, NORTHUMBERLAND PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5-8, NORTHUMBERLAND PLACE
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:
- 5-8, NORTHUMBERLAND PLACE
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 75057 64866
Details
NORTHUMBERLAND PLACE (South side) Nos.5-8 (Consec) (Formerly Listed as: NORTHUMBERLAND PLACE Nos.5-7 AND 13-19 (Consec)) 11/08/72
GV II
Shops with accommodation over. Early C19. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, now all painted, roofs not visible. PLAN: Single depth plan, backing onto Nos 15-18 The Corridor (qv), and some have been physically joined with these. EXTERIOR: Two storeys, one window each, early C19 eight/eight-sashes on upper floor. Each has shopfront. No.5 has reproduction small paned bow, and leaded fanlight. Nos 6 and 7 have square bays on brackets, c1830, with glazing bars. No.8 has square bay on brackets, in four panes with vertical glazing bars only. Shop windows and doors have reeded jambs, and lintels with lion mask paterae in angles. Cornice, parapet, tall stacks with pots. INTERIORS: Not inspected. The buildings are individually modest but together have unity and group value. A particularly charming terminal feature at the east end is the archway into High Street, with, above it, the pedimented rear elevation of No.21 High Street (qv). Northumberland Place was built on the site of a medieval close, Marchant's Court, which is clearly shown on Gilmore's map of 1694.
Listing NGR: ST7505764866
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511605
- 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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