18 AND 19 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

18 AND 19 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 18 AND 19, NEW KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1396262
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 18 AND 19 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: 18 AND 19 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 18 AND 19, NEW KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1396262
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 18 AND 19 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: 18 AND 19 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 18 AND 19, NEW KING 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:: 18 AND 19 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 18 AND 19, NEW KING 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 74559 64891

Details

NEW KING STREET (South side) Nos.18 AND 19 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: NEW KING STREET (South side) Nos.10-34 (Consec)) 12/06/50

GV II*

Pair of terrace houses. 1764-1770 with C19 and C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, some coursed rubble to rear, slate roofs. PLAN: Town houses with double mansard roof, rebuilt and raised to No.19, and with entrance and staircase to left. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, each two windows, all sash. Two twelve-pane dormers above plain in painted moulded architraves, and with floating cornice at first floor. No.18 has single sash in splay at ground floor, and twelve-pane to basement. No.19 has C20 lights in high mansard, above twelve-pane at each level, trimmed as to No.18. Both houses have six-panel doors in moulded architrave with flat hood on consoles. Platband above ground floor, slightly stepped up at centre, modillion cornice stopped at each end, blocking course and parapet, central lead downpipe, and straight masonry joint each end. Coped party divisions, deep stacks to right. To rear each has two dormers above tripartite sashes, with straight drip above first floor. Tripartite windows to ground and first floors. INTERIORS: No. 18 (inspected 1974) has very fine cupboards either side of fireplace with four-panel glazed doors with arches and a broken pediment above. No. 19, the Herschel Museum, retains a wooden stair with columnar newel, three turned balusters per tread; plasterwork and fireplaces mainly of Regency date; kitchen retains flagged floor and under-stairs cupboard, copper, Victorian range; workshop to rear was used by Herschel for grinding mirrors for his telescopes. Vaults with stone bench, shelves and stone sink. First floor drawing room has rope scrolled panels around the walls. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Simple railings on stone curb, returned to doors, enclose basement areas. HISTORY: These houses have witnessed discoveries of the greatest magnitude. (Sir) William Herschel (1738-1822) stayed at No.19 from 1779 (see bronze plaque), and discovered Uranus from his garden in March 1781, using a 7 ft telescope of his own construction: this effectively doubled the size of the known universe at this time. No. 19 was opened by the Herschel Trust as a museum in 1981, giving valuable insights into town house interiors of the upper-middling sort. On a lesser note, the external fabric reveals the staggered building history of the row. The full terrace has broad consistency of detail, but with variations in elevation, building was in small sections, marked by straight joints.

Listing NGR: ST7455964891

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Legacy System number:: 511667
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.