Description

DARLINGTON PLACE
(West side)

Nos.11, 12 AND 13
(Formerly Listed as: DARLINGTON
PLACE Nos.11-20 (Consec))
11/8/72

GV II

Three terrace houses. Early C19 with C20 alterations.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roofs hipped to right with moulded stacks to party walls.
PLAN: Double depth plan.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys including attic storey. One and two-window range. Continuous coped parapet, attic and second floor cornices. No. 11 has C20 porch to right, with hipped roof. Ground floor left balconette to six/six-pane sash window. Front garden occupied by former two-storey coach house, has double pitched roof, coped parapet which sweeps up over gables of returns. Coved cornice to front, chamfered architrave to eight/eight-pane Tudor arched sash window with intersecting tracery, similar window to rear, and large double doors with timber lintel. No. 12 has six/six-pane sash windows; two-storey porch to right has two windows to both floors of left return, those to first floor with balconettes, those to ground floor flank six-panel door. No. 13 has balconettes to attic windows, coved cornice over first floor, irregularly placed windows and six-panel door to right.
INTERIORS: No. 12 was recorded by Bath Preservation Trust in 1997. The ground floor shutters and door have a diamond pattern in each panel, repeated elsewhere in the house. There is a balcony along the entire back of the house. Two Gothic style windows in the lobby with small coloured glass inserts. The wall between the basement and sitting room has been removed. There are the remains of an old dresser in the deep recess in the kitchen.
HISTORY: This development on the Bathwick Estate took its name from Henry Vane, 4th Earl of Darlington who succeeded to the estate of the Countess of Bath in 1808. John Pinch the Elder was associated with much of the development on this estate.

Listing NGR: ST7588564751

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674091

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