Description

UPPER BRISTOL ROAD
656-1/29/1729 (South side)

Sterling House

(formerly Albion House)
05/08/75

GV II

House, now offices, on sloping site. c1790.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double-pitched roof (unseen) with moulded stacks to returns.
PLAN: Double depth plan.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys and basement, symmetrical three-window front. Building encircled by level coped parapet, cornice, lintel frieze and second floor sill band slightly returned, ground floor platband and chamfered rustication with radial voussoirs not returned, eight/eight-pane horned sash windows, lowered first floor sills with extra row of panes above platband, set back door to centre. Left return, rubblestone to stacks, has small horned six/six-pane sash window to centre of ground floor. Right return partially enveloped by late (not listed) C19 house. Rear elevation has a cast iron balcony to right hand ground floor window with strigillated decoration.
INTERIOR: Not inspected; believed to retain some plasterwork.
HISTORY: A house is shown in this position on Harcourt Masters's 1793 map of Bath, then right on the edge of town.

Listing NGR: ST7401365147

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674438

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)