16-20, OLD ORCHARD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396229
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: 16-20, OLD ORCHARD STREET
Statutory Address:: 16-20, OLD ORCHARD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396229
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 16-20, OLD ORCHARD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 16-20, OLD ORCHARD 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:: 16-20, OLD ORCHARD 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 75185 64646

Details

OLD ORCHARD STREET

Nos.16-20 (Consec) 11/08/72

GV II

Houses, with shop incorporated in No.19. Mid C18. Perhaps by John Wood the Elder, but probably by Thomas Jelly. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, rendered and painted to ground floor, with Welsh slate and pantile roofs. PLAN: Double depth houses each three bays wide. No.20 now has five bays and may incorporate part of old No.21 which disappeared after reconstruction of rear of Nos 3 and 4 North Parade in 1887 (qv). EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attics and cellars. Platband at first floor level to Nos 16, 17 and 19, at first floor sill level to Nos 16-18. All windows are sashes of late C18 type six/six, in plain architraves, first floor windows have entablatures. Doorways with pediments, panelled doors. No.16 has no door surround, and additional door to right. No.19 has small paned shopfront six x four. No. 20 has wrought iron railings. Modillion cornice, parapet, mansard roof with flat topped dormers to Nos 16 and 17 (Welsh slate), roof not visible to Nos 18 and 19, pantile mansard to No.20, with three flat topped dormers, six/six. Ashlar end stacks with pots. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: These houses formed part of the uncompleted John Wood scheme for the Abbey Orchard, 1740-1748. The houses have very similar characteristics to the Thomas Jelly development of c1754 at North Parade Buildings (qv), and probably just predate them, No.20 may however be an earlier one. By 1800 they formed part of a group of public entertainment buildings: No.16 was once the Shakespeare Tavern (1809-1906), No.19 was the King's Arms in 1800, No.21 was the home of Charles Harcourt Masters, architect of the Sydney Pleasure Grounds and Hotel, and was where his model of the City of Bath was exhibited in 1789-1790. SOURCES: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1948), 43;

Listing NGR: ST7518564646

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Legacy System number:: 511632
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.