Valentine Villa
VALENTINE VILLA, 181, NEWBRIDGE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396297
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Valentine Villa
- Statutory Address:
- VALENTINE VILLA, 181, NEWBRIDGE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396297
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Valentine Villa
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALENTINE VILLA, 181, NEWBRIDGE HILL
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:
- VALENTINE VILLA, 181, NEWBRIDGE HILL
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 72323 65650
Details
NEWBRIDGE HILL (South side) No.181 Valentine Villa (Formerly Listed as: NEWBRIDGE HILL No.181 Merthyr Villa) 05/08/75 II
Detached house. Late C18, refurbished and extended c1868 (first appearance in Bath Directory as a gentleman's residence).
MATERIALS: Coursed squared white limestone with Bath stone dressings, single Roman tile roof.
PLAN: Single depth house with rear outshut and kitchen wing. Built facing south with its back to road.
EXTERIOR: South (garden) elevation has two storeys, three windows wide, with additional single storey kitchen wing to right. Ground floor has three pane French windows with louvered shutters flanking central four/four-sash, which would have originally been front door before Victorian alterations. Full width glazed veranda on slight iron uprights. Above are three plain sashes. Roof with stone verges and ashlar stack with weathering at either end of ridge. Kitchen extension to right single storey with lean-to roof. Door, paired plain sash, tall kitchen stack. Rear (road) elevation has continuous outshut under catslide roof. Altered and heightened in c1868 when house was upgraded. Single storey with upper floor corridor at top of stairs giving access to upper rooms of main block. Central six-panel door with dressed surround flanked by paired Gothic windows with Caernarfon heads and stone mullion. Roof light for stair head above.
INTERIOR: Very altered decoratively but still retains cast iron range in Tudor arched kitchen fireplace.
HISTORY: Interesting example of farmhouse transformed into minor gentlemen's residence as Bath was pushed out into countryside in mid C19.
Listing NGR: ST7232365650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511701
- 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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