Description

LARK PLACE

Nos.1-9 (Consec)
(Formerly Listed
as: UPPER BRISTOL
ROAD Lark Place
Nos 1-9 (consec))

05/08/75
II

Terrace of houses. c1840.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with triple Roman tile roofs, some are concrete.
PLAN: Double depth plan with doors to right except No.9.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys, two windows each, all six/six-sashes in plain frames. Doors are four-panel in plain recessed frames. First floor sill band, cornice, parapet. These are continuous to Nos 1-5, stepped up. The name of the row is inscribed in sunken lettering on the sill band of No.5. Double roof, ashlar stack to left of each house on party wall, except for No.9. Rear elevation not seen.
INTERIORS: Not all inspected, the stairs of Nos 1 and 5 have Doric newels with square banisters.
HISTORY: A well-preserved row of modest houses on the outskirts of the city, still very much in the late Georgian tradition. The row is marked on Hayward's 1852 plan of the City of Bath. It has undergone sympathetic restoration in recent times.

Listing NGR: ST7368365239

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673811

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Recommended Books

• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)