Old Post Office

Old Post Office, 78, Church Road, Bath

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A detached house, formerly three houses. Late C18 or early C19. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1406073
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-2011
List Entry Name:: Old Post Office
Statutory Address:: Old Post Office, 78, Church Road, Bath

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1406073
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-2011
List Entry Name:: Old Post Office
Statutory Address 1:: Old Post Office, 78, Church Road, 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Old Post Office, 78, Church Road, 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:: ST7588062282

Summary

A detached house, formerly three houses. Late C18 or early C19.

Reasons for Designation

* Architectural interest: a good example of late-C18 or early-C19 former cottages that reflect the vernacular traditions of the area; * Historic interest: although altered, the history of the building and its original form remain legible.

History

The building is formerly three houses that were constructed in the late C18 or early C19 and located on the edge of a former quarry.

Details

MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar and dressed stone with a double Roman tile or concrete tile roof.

PLAN: The building is set on a former quarry edge, with the main range in two storeys to the street, but developing to three storeys and high basement wall at the rear, south side, and with a small gabled single-storey service building to the left. To the right of the main range, and at an angle to the second unit, is a former separate dwelling, in ashlar block and concrete tile roof, set on rock foundations at higher level than first unit.

EXTERIOR: The principal range has two twelve-pane sashes in flush dressed surrounds over large sixteen-pane, and a former shop-front in six large panes, with a panelled door, under a simple fascia, with to the left a panelled door under a slab hood on brackets. Cavetto cornice, with blocking course and parapet, returned to coped gables, and a very deep but narrow two-stage central ashlar stack. The rear has two twelve-pane sashes at three levels, and deep plain walling below. Adjacent range has a four-pane sash at each level, and a blocked doorway to the left. Each gable has a small stack, and the rear has two plain sashes at two levels.

INTERIOR: Not inspected.

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.