Mount Rose, No. 31 Oldfield Road
31 Oldfield Road, Bath, BA2 3ND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1406375
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Rose, No. 31 Oldfield Road
- Statutory Address:
- 31 Oldfield Road, Bath, BA2 3ND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1406375
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Rose, No. 31 Oldfield Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31 Oldfield Road, Bath, BA2 3ND
- Statutory Address 2:
- Top Flat, 31 Oldfield Road, Bath, BA2 3ND
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:
- 31 Oldfield Road, Bath, BA2 3ND
- Statutory Address:
- Top Flat, 31 Oldfield Road, Bath, BA2 3ND
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:
- ST7417364001
Summary
An early-C19 villa with good detailing.
Reasons for Designation
Mount Rose, No. 31 Oldfield Road, Bath is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: as a well-detailed early-C19 villa;
* Group value: with other early-C19 villas on Oldfield Road, some which are listed at Grade II.
History
One of an important group of five substantial c.1840 villas in this road, of differing sizes and design with spacious gardens (qv Nos 27, 29, and 32).
Details
MATERIALS: fine ashlar, slate roof.
PLAN: a compact symmetrical front block, with twin low pitched gables, and a low tower to the rear, left, probably part of the original design.
EXTERIOR: two storeys, three windows, all plastic replacements. To each side broad canted bays with mid-cornice and moulded parapet, with plain arched centre light above deep glazed gabled porch on pair of part-glazed doors. At the rear of each gable are paired stacks to cavetto cornice and bracketed moulded cappings, with similar stack to eaves in plain rubble built right return. There is a further single stack to the left of the tower. All stacks have Victorian yellow clay pots. To the left, there is an external concrete stair to a first floor doorway in the tower, with a low-pitched pyramidal roof to wide eaves. The rear block includes a bold gabled dormer with deep cusped barge-board on brackets.
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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