Priory Lodge

Priory Lodge, Weston Road, Bath, BA1 2XT

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Overview

Lodge and former stable backing onto road. c1845. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1406080
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-2011
List Entry Name:: Priory Lodge
Statutory Address:: Priory Lodge, Weston Road, Bath, BA1 2XT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1406080
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-2011
List Entry Name:: Priory Lodge
Statutory Address 1:: Priory Lodge, Weston Road, Bath, BA1 2XT

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:: Priory Lodge, Weston Road, Bath, BA1 2XT

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:: ST7351065756

Summary

Lodge and former stable backing onto road. c1845.

Reasons for Designation

Priory Lodge is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: it is a handsome mid-C19 former lodge and stable block with good gothic detailing * Group value: it has group value with the Priory Hotel and other listed buildings on Weston Road

History

A very handsome ancillary structure, showing the progressive tastes of an early Victorian house of substance; stylistically the structure is indebted to Edward Davis's Gothic Farm House in the Royal Victoria Park of 1830.

Details

PLAN: L-plan.

MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof with moulded stacks.

EXTERIOR: Three storeys, two-window front to street (north). Long range to west has ornamented fretted bargeboard to gables at each end, central corbelled first-floor stacks offset below eaves and with octagonal shafts, that to street front flanked by small two pane Tudor-arched casement windows under flat arches with sunk spandrels. To centre of ground floor, below stack similar paired windows under label mould. Single-storey block to east end has similar blind three-light window. Gabled west facade has one window to each floor similar to those on street facade, two-light to ground floor, south front of the east block similar. South front of west block (unseen) housed stable.

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.