7 and 8 Cheap Street

7 and 8 Cheap Street, Bath, BA1 1NE

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Overview

Shops with accommodation over. Possibly c.1700, rebuilt c.1895. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1404113
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-2011
List Entry Name:: 7 and 8 Cheap Street
Statutory Address:: 7 and 8 Cheap Street, Bath, BA1 1NE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1404113
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-2011
List Entry Name:: 7 and 8 Cheap Street
Statutory Address 1:: 7 and 8 Cheap Street, Bath, BA1 1NE

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:: 7 and 8 Cheap Street, Bath, BA1 1NE

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:: ST7507264811

Summary

Shops with accommodation over. Possibly c.1700, rebuilt c.1895.

Reasons for Designation

Nos. 7 and 8 Cheap Street is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: it is a good example of a well-proportioned late-C19 town building which may incorporate some early-C18 fabric * Group value: it forms an important part of the design of a group of buildings which lie on a significant street within the conservation area and world heritage site of the City of Bath

History

Seemingly of the same build as nos 3-6 Cheap Street (qv) but to a significantly different design. May be the work of Major Charles Davis as the adjoining Nos 9 and 10 (qv). There may be survival of earlier fabric within these buildings. It is situated in an important and long-established main shopping street, which takes its name from the old English for Market, and which was widened and re-fronted under Baldwin's direction in c. 1790.

Details

MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roof.

PLAN: Double-depth plan with rear windows on upper floors only.

EXTERIOR: Three storeys, two windows each. Modern shop-fronts flank central entrance with pediment over. Sill band to first floor. Plain horned sashes in architrave surrounds with cornice heads. Sill band to second floor, plain sashes with plain eared architraves. Cornice band, parapet, mansard roof with two flat-topped dormers to whole, ashlar stack with pot against wall of No.9.

INTERIOR: Not inspected.

Sources

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Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.