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8, Upper Church Street

A Grade II* Listed Building in Bath, Bath and North East Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.387 / 51°23'13"N

Longitude: -2.3663 / 2°21'58"W

OS Eastings: 374607

OS Northings: 165397

OS Grid: ST746653

Mapcode National: GBR 0Q9.W15

Mapcode Global: VH96L.XDXJ

Plus Code: 9C3V9JPM+RF

Entry Name: 8, Upper Church Street

Listing Date: 12 June 1950

Last Amended: 15 October 2010

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1395474

English Heritage Legacy ID: 510878

ID on this website: 101395474

Location: Walcot, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA1

County: Bath and North East Somerset

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bath

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


UPPER CHURCH STREET
656-1/30/2545 (East side)

No.8

(Formerly Listed as:
UPPER CHURCH STREET
No.1 (Park View House)
& Nos 2-8 (consec))
12/06/50

GV II*

House at corner with Upper Church Street and Catharine Place and taller than adjacent houses. c1780. Probably developed by John Wood the Younger.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched slate mansard roof with three dormers and moulded stacks to party walls.
PLAN: Double depth plan.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attic and basement, five-window front. Returned coped parapet, modillion cornice, ground floor platband and plinth, painted basement, six/six-pane sash windows all without horns, those to front lower floors with splayed reveals, those to first floor with semi-elliptical plan balconettes, to right of centre pedimented stone Tuscan doorcase with engaged columns and set back six-panel door. Four-window left return in Catharine Place has mostly blind windows to right, left hand range has six/six-pane sash windows, tripartite window to second floor, Venetian window with balconette and splayed reveals to first floor and similar flat arched window to ground floor.
INTERIOR: Not inspected, but 1945 photos in the National Monuments Record reveal fine plasterwork: overmantel panel containing fine oval medallion based on the antique suspended from strings of husks looped and festooned over paterae, above fireplace with stone surround, anthemion-enriched consoles to either side. Also contains a first floor music room with coved ceiling, with star burst to centre and musical trophies within fronds, fronting Catharine Place. Listed Grade II* on account of interior.
SOURCES: Walter Ison, 'The Georgian Buildings of Bath' (2nd ed 1980), 211.

Listing NGR: ST7460765397

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