Boundary walls of Partis College
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1405532
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary walls of Partis College
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1405532
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary walls of Partis College
- Location Description:
- Partis College, Newbridge Hill, Bath, BA1 3QD
Along north side of 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
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:
- ST7234165666
Summary
A wall of c1827, built as part of Partis College (qv).
Reasons for Designation
* Architectural interest: it is a good example of a substantial early C19 boundary wall built in good quality materials;
* Group value: it forms part of an important group with the Grade I listed Partis College which it continues to serve.
History
Partis College was built in 1825-7 by Samuel Philip Flood Page as almshouses, and endowed under the will of the Rev. Fletcher Partis to provide homes for thirty women.
Details
The boundary wall is built with coursed squared limestone with a dressed coping, and it runs from the southern entrance gatepier (qv) of Partis College following the line of Newbridge Hill, along the whole College frontage. It is approximately 100m in length and 2.5m in height.
Sources
Books and journals
Jackson, N, Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture, (1991), 48-51
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bath, (1980), 78
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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