Combe Down House
Combe Down House Surgery, Combe Down House, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5EG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1406234
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Combe Down House
- Statutory Address:
- Combe Down House Surgery, Combe Down House, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5EG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1406234
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Combe Down House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Combe Down House Surgery, Combe Down House, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5EG
- Statutory Address 2:
- Combe Down House, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5EG
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:
- Combe Down House Surgery, Combe Down House, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5EG
- Statutory Address:
- Combe Down House, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5EG
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:
- ST7603862487
Summary
An early to mid-C19 villa. The building was adapted in the C20 and extended in the early C21.
Reasons for Designation
* Architectural interest: as a largely intact early to mid-C19 villa;
* Group value: with the other Grade II listed buildings in The Avenue.
History
This villa was constructed in the early to mid-C19. The building was adapted in the C20 and extended in the early C21.
Details
MATERIALS: limestone ashlar with a slate roof.
PLAN: a compact villa with a low-pitched hipped roof.
EXTERIOR: two storeys, three windows, mainly six-over-six sashes on wide sills with brackets. The ground floor right has a flat-roofed canted bay with a plain sash, and a cornice with blocking course. The central square ashlar porch has panelled pilasters and a frieze, with cornice and blocking, and a pair of C20 glazed doors. There is an eaves band, end stacks, and a broad soffit with wedge-shaped brackets. The left return has a sash at each level near the rear, which has an added lean-to section and further ashlar stack. There are moulded gate piers with semi-circular finials to front. The right return is attached to a large brick extension of early-C21 date.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
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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