Description

SYDNEY ROAD
656-1/32/1664 (West side)
Sydney House
12/06/50

GV II

Detached house, now offices. 1835-6. Attributed to John Pinch the Younger.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, single pitched slate roof with moulded stacks to the returns.
PLAN: Double depth plan.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys and basement, symmetrical five-window range. Coped parapet with balustraded panels to front over windows, sweeps up on returns to meet stacks, cornice and frieze, ground floor platband and banded rustication and incised voussoirs to ground floor. Front, facing north-east, has moulded architraves to upper floor windows, small three/three-pane sash to centre of second floor flanked by square two-pane casement windows, those to first floor have cornices, friezes, bracketed sills, six panes to upper sashes and two horizontal panes to lower sashes. French windows to ground floor have margin panes and overlights. Central three-bays step slightly forward. Returns have some sash and some blind windows. Overlight to six-panel door in left return has triangular margin panes to rectangular, central pane. Central three stepped-forward bays of rear, facing Sydney Gardens, form rear wing. Lower two storey range steps further forward with imposing segmental bay. Similar balustraded parapet, cornice and frieze front, four Corinthian columns flank three six/one-pane sash windows with late C19 sunblind boxes, segmental curved cast iron trellised balcony fronts whole central block.
INTERIOR: Not inspected. Interior sub-divided into flats in 1983.
HISTORY: Axially aligned with the former Sydney Hotel (now the Holburne Museum), this house was built on ground taken out of the north-eastern corner of Sydney Gardens. The Loggia below [q.v.] was rebuilt at the time of construction.
SOURCES: Brenda Snaddon, 'The Last Promenade. Sydney Gardens Bath' (2000), 28.

Listing NGR: ST7591565394

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688861

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