Wessex Court (formerly coach house to the Weston public house)
Wessex Court (former coach house to The Weston Public House), Ashley Avenue, Bath, BA1 3DS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1405773
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Wessex Court (formerly coach house to the Weston public house)
- Statutory Address:
- Wessex Court (former coach house to The Weston Public House), Ashley Avenue, Bath, BA1 3DS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1405773
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Wessex Court (formerly coach house to the Weston public house)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Wessex Court (former coach house to The Weston Public House), Ashley Avenue, Bath, BA1 3DS
- Statutory Address 2:
- Wessex Court (former coach house to The Weston Public House), Ashley Avenue, Bath, BA1 3DS
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:
- Wessex Court (former coach house to The Weston Public House), Ashley Avenue, Bath, BA1 3DS
- Statutory Address:
- Wessex Court (former coach house to The Weston Public House), Ashley Avenue, Bath, BA1 3DS
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:
- ST7320165087
Summary
A former coach house and assembly room built in c1900, now in use as offices, probably by WJ Unsworth, as the Weston Public House it served (qv), to which it is attached.
Reasons for Designation
* Architectural interest: an unusual use of the Cotswold Vernacular style in Bath;
* Group value: with the adjacent Weston public house, also listed at Grade II, which it served.
History
Built as a coach house to the Weston Inn (qv) with which it forms an important group, and giving the impression of being a stable block to a substantial house.
Details
A former coach house and assembly room built in c1900, now in use as offices, probably by WJ Unsworth, as the Weston Public House it served (qv), to which it is attached.
MATERIALS: limestone ashlar with plain tile roof.
PLAN: built in C18 Cotswold vernacular style.
EXTERIOR: two storeys, on falling ground, so higher to south. Four-door coach house with paired modern steel doors and RSJ lintel. Five tall windows are two-light with mullion and two transoms. Eaves, plain roof with lead cupola to square ventilator with weathervane. Gable ends have recessed five light mullioned window in gable. Gables are coped with ball finials on kneelers. It has a single storey extension with lean-to roof at the street end. Three-light windows flanking two light. It has some other later alterations and extensions.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but likely to have been altered when converted into offices.
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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