1, 2 and 3 Mile End

1, 2 and 3 Mile End, London Road, Bath, BA1 6PT

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Overview

Shops with offices over. Dated 1862, with mid-C20 alterations to the shop-fronts. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1405787
Date first listed:: 05-Dec-2011
List Entry Name:: 1, 2 and 3 Mile End
Statutory Address:: 1, 2 and 3 Mile End, London Road, Bath, BA1 6PT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1405787
Date first listed:: 05-Dec-2011
List Entry Name:: 1, 2 and 3 Mile End
Statutory Address 1:: 1, 2 and 3 Mile End, London Road, Bath, BA1 6PT

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 1, 2 and 3 Mile End, London Road, Bath, BA1 6PT

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:: ST7581066089

Summary

Shops with offices over. Dated 1862, with mid-C20 alterations to the shop-fronts.

Reasons for Designation

* Architectural interest: its bold, Italianate design is a good example of its type; * Intactness: the building has remained largely unaltered and retains its matching shop fronts; * Group value: with the numerous listed buildings opposite, in Kensington Place.

History

Built in 1862 and extended in 1919.

Details

MATERIALS: limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof.

PLAN: a half H-shaped block with central cart entrance to a rear courtyard. It was intended to be part of a continuous frontage, but now both returns are visible.

EXTERIOR: two storeys, five bays, centre set slightly forward and containing carriageway. Ground floor has plain Tuscan pilasters at quoins and at either side of central arch. Plain frieze with bracketed cornice above. Shop-fronts on either side, each have four arched heads, on right (No.1) outer ones have modern doorways with panelled doors with integrated fanlights, plate glass between and in fanlights above, while on left (Nos.2 and 3) it has four light shop window without door. Entrance to shop, now part of same property, in single storey extension with shop-front. This dates from 1919, by AJ Taylor. Central entrance has paired panelled gates, each with three vertical openings and down curved top rail. First floor pilasters continue up as rusticated quoins. Centre bay has Venetian window with raised architrave with keystone head. Other bays have paired windows with arched heads, raised architraves, keystones and impost blocks. All windows are plain plate glass sashes. Modillion cornice, hipped roof with ashlar stack to right. Central feature to front in form of double stack joined at top to make bell-cote with a large keyed head, the base of which carries the date 1862. Side elevations, originally intended to be hidden, are plain.

INTERIOR: Not inspected.

Sources

Other
Finch, G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council, 1992, Finch, G,

Legal

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