CITY WALLS (REMAINS OF)

CITY WALLS (REMAINS OF), OLD ORCHARD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396232
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: CITY WALLS (REMAINS OF)
Statutory Address:: CITY WALLS (REMAINS OF), OLD ORCHARD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396232
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: CITY WALLS (REMAINS OF)
Statutory Address 1:: CITY WALLS (REMAINS OF), 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CITY WALLS (REMAINS OF), 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:: ST7516164625

Details

12/06/50

OLD ORCHARD STREET City Walls (remains of)

GV II

Town wall. C4, repaired/rebuilt in medieval times. Coursed squared limestone, battlemented parapet. Four courses X twenty metres survives. HISTORY: Part of the Roman town wall of Bath, built in stone in C4, rebuilt in Middle Ages and largely demolished in 1760's. This stretch was almost completely demolished in c1959, and present appearance dates from then. This constituted the most considerable remaining section in the city and formerly stood approx 6m. high until its reduction in 1959. SOURCES: B. Cunliffe, The City of Bath (1986), 171. Scheduled Monument ref: OCN BA 114

Listing NGR: ST7516164625

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 511634
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.