Cricket Pavilion c.100m south of Prior Park College
Cricket Pavilion c100m south of Prior Park College, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1405946
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Cricket Pavilion c.100m south of Prior Park College
- Statutory Address:
- Cricket Pavilion c100m south of Prior Park College, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1405946
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Cricket Pavilion c.100m south of Prior Park College
- Statutory Address 1:
- Cricket Pavilion c100m south of Prior Park College, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath
- Statutory Address 2:
- Cricket Pavilion c100m south of Prior Park College, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath
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:
- Cricket Pavilion c100m south of Prior Park College, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath
- Statutory Address:
- Cricket Pavilion c100m south of Prior Park College, Ralph Allen Drive, 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:
- ST7627762798
Summary
Originally a bath house, now a cricket pavilion. A c1920 reconstruction of early/mid-C18 bath house. Built for Ralph Allen, possibly by John Wood the Elder, or by Richard Jones.
Reasons for Designation
* Architectural Interest: it is a well designed former bath house attributed to internationally significant architects;
* Group Value: it has group value with Prior Park College, the registered landscape garden and other listed buildings within the designed landscape.
History
The building is apparently the relocated plunge bath of Ralph Allen, which originally stood some distance away down the vale below the house on the north side. The interior is well preserved but retains nothing below ground and the original planning and function of the bath is uncertain.
Details
MATERIALS: limestone ashlar, with a concrete roof.
PLAN: rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: Neo-Classical in style, with a plain exterior. It is a single storey and has a three-bay front with three-light windows which flank a central door with sidelights, all windows are two-pane sashes. There is a glazed door, cornice band, and parapet; the roof is not visible.
INTERIOR: entirely ashlar-faced with vaulted stone ceilings. There is a central lobby and two rooms with Doric pilasters and arched niches.
Sources
Books and journals
Clarke, G, Prior Park A Compleat Landscape: Bath, (1987), 48 & 55
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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