Memorial Cottages

Memorial Cottages, 1-4 Weston Lane, Bath

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Overview

A terrace of four vernacular-Revival style almshouses on a site that slopes steeply down to the rear. Dated 1905, by Mowbray A Green. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1406486
Date first listed:: 29-Nov-2011
List Entry Name:: Memorial Cottages
Statutory Address:: Memorial Cottages, 1-4 Weston Lane, Bath

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1406486
Date first listed:: 29-Nov-2011
List Entry Name:: Memorial Cottages
Statutory Address 1:: Memorial Cottages, 1-4 Weston Lane, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Memorial Cottages, 1-4 Weston Lane, 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:: ST7306666120

Summary

A terrace of four vernacular-Revival style almshouses on a site that slopes steeply down to the rear. Dated 1905, by Mowbray A Green.

Reasons for Designation

* Architectural interest: the symmetrical grouping of alms houses combines Baroque and Arts and Crafts and vernacular motifs to create a convincing mixture which is typical of its period; * Group value: The building groups well with other listed buildings along Weston Lane.

History

The group of alms houses is dated 1905 and was designed by Mowbray A Green. The exterior has been little altered since its building.

Details

MATERIALS: limestone ashlar, a plain tile roof with moulded stacks to centre ridge and gable ends.

PLAN: double-depth plan with rear wings.

EXTERIOR: two storeys and basements with two shared entrances. They are adjoining symmetrical pairs with moulded kneelers to coped gable ends and a central party wall. There is a single leaded three-light stone mullioned and transomed window to each floor of each house, the upper of which is in a half-dormer. Each pair has central gabled porch on brackets over planked door. There is a Baroque inscription cartouche set beneath a segmental hood, placed over a blind arched entrance at the centre of the row. Rears have similar windows in gabled dormers and one and two-light leaded windows. Long flights of stone steps against rear wings lead from the ground floor down to the garden.

INTERIORS: not inspected.

Sources

Books and journals
Jackson, N, Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture, (1991), 231

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.