Loggia attached to Barcote House (excluding Barcote House)

Loggia to Barcote House (excluding Barcote House), Lansdown Grove, Bath

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Overview

A mid-C18 garden building in Gothick style. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1405892
Date first listed:: 23-Nov-2011
List Entry Name:: Loggia attached to Barcote House (excluding Barcote House)
Statutory Address:: Loggia to Barcote House (excluding Barcote House), Lansdown Grove, Bath

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1405892
Date first listed:: 23-Nov-2011
List Entry Name:: Loggia attached to Barcote House (excluding Barcote House)
Location Description:: An C18 garden building now attached to the south gable end of Barcote House, which dates from the late C20.
Statutory Address 1:: Loggia to Barcote House (excluding Barcote House), Lansdown Grove, Bath

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:: Loggia to Barcote House (excluding Barcote House), Lansdown Grove, Bath

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:: ST7483165803

Summary

A mid-C18 garden building in Gothick style.

Reasons for Designation

* Architectural interest: it is a good example of a mid-C18 garden building displaying good quality architectural detailing and decoration in Gothic Revival style reminiscent of that used by the architect Batty Langley; * Intactness: the loggia has survived mostly intact and the fact it is now attached to the gable end of a modern dwelling has not affected its special interest; * Rarity: it is an interesting survival of a vulnerable and increasingly rare building type; * Group value: it forms an interesting group with the Grade II listed Lansdown Grove Hotel (formerly a private mansion), and originally stood within its ornamental grounds, first laid out in the mid-C18.

History

The first edition Ordnance Survey map published in 1888 shows the loggia as a small free-standing building in the garden of Lansdown Grove (qv), a former house built in the late C18, which since the C20 has been in use as a hotel. It was probably built as a belvedere, or viewing platform, and belongs to the earlier phase of the development of Lansdown Hill. It is built in a Gothic Revival style reminiscent of the work of the garden designer, architect and writer Batty Langley (1696-1751). Barcote House (not of special interest) was built in the late C20, when the loggia became a verandah at its south gable end.

Details

A mid-C18 garden building, rebuilt in the C20 to form a veranda to the south gable end of Barcote House (the latter is not of special interest).

MATERIALS: the loggia is built in Bath limestone ashlar with a slate roof.

EXTERIOR: the loggia consists of a colonnade with a parapet built in a Gothick style, reminiscent of Batty Langley. The parapet has moulded coping and pierced quatrefoils; the colonnade has engaged paired quatrefoil-section columns with foliate caps to each side flanking two similar freestanding columns.

Sources

None.

Legal

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