40, GREAT PULTENEY STREET
40, GREAT PULTENEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1396211
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 40, GREAT PULTENEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 40, GREAT PULTENEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1396211
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 40, GREAT PULTENEY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, GREAT PULTENEY 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:
- 40, GREAT PULTENEY 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 75596 65224
Details
GREAT PULTENEY STREET (North side) No.40 (Consec) (Formerly Listed as: GREAT PULTENEY STREET (North side) Nos 1-10, 10A, 11-40 (consec)) 12/06/50
GV I
Terrace house. c1790. By Thomas Baldwin, John Eveleigh and other architects. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched slate mansard roofs with dormers and moulded stacks, many with hand thrown chimney pots, to coped party walls. PLAN: Double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attics, lower ground floors and basements, three-window range. Whole terrace has coped parapet, now partly removed, modillion cornice, frieze and fascia, moulded second and first floor sill string courses, six/six-pane sash windows. Ground floor platband moulded to base, over chamfered rustication with radial voussoirs to flat arches, plinth, six-panel doors with overlights. Rest of terrace irregularly articulated by giant order of fluted Corinthian pilasters. No.40 to right, stepped forward, pedimented and similar in style to No.21, other terminal (qv). Semicircular arched window to centre of first floor has radial glazing bars and cornice on consoles with double festoon to frieze, flanked by paterae. Three windows to ground floor. Three-window right return entrance facade cants back into Sydney Place. Parapet sweeps up at centre to meet central stack with sunflower to centre of circular panel with wheat-ear drops, cornice returned without modillions but with lintel frieze, sill bands to all floors, ground floor platband and banded pilasters to ground floor. To centre of second floor and left hand ranges below, are blind windows. Window to centre of first floor has narrow pilasters with foliate caps supporting dentil cornice and frieze. Central set back eight-panel door in plain opening has diagonal glazing bars to overlight. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Sub-divided into flats in 1986. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Terrace fronted by square section railings with urn finials and vases above plinths, and gates to basement areas. HISTORY: Great Pulteney Street forms the principal element of the late C18 development of the Bathwick estate east of the River Avon. Laid out on an unusually generous scale, 100ft wide, it is one of the most imposing urban set-pieces of its day in Britain. Robert Adam prepared designs in 1782, but Thomas Baldwin was responsible for the eventual design. Leases were granted from 1788 but progress was delayed as a result of the building crash of the mid-1790s. SOURCES: (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980-: 164).
Listing NGR: ST7559665224
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511617
- 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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