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14, Cheap Street

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3816 / 51°22'53"N

Longitude: -2.3594 / 2°21'33"W

OS Eastings: 375085

OS Northings: 164790

OS Grid: ST750647

Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.B9H

Mapcode Global: VH96M.2J1Q

Plus Code: 9C3V9JJR+J6

Entry Name: 14, Cheap Street

Listing Date: 12 June 1950

Last Amended: 15 October 2010

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1395620

English Heritage Legacy ID: 511032

ID on this website: 101395620

Location: Bath, 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


CHEAP STREET
(South side)
No.14

12/06/50

GV
II

Shop with accommodation over. c1800, altered 1925.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with ground floor rendered and painted, roof not visible.
PLAN: Single depth central entry plan, back-to-back with No.15 Abbey Church Yard (qv).
EXTERIOR: Four storeys and attic, three bays. Ground floor has 1925 shopfront of some quality, by AJ Taylor, double fronted with recessed entrance, bronze window surrounds with black glass stallriser, marble surround with original lettering. Fascia rises into first floor which also has 1920's windows, three small square ones with margin glazing forming mezzanine. Above, each floor has sill band with paired windows flanking single one, all twelve-pane sashes of late C18 type. Cornice band, parapet, roof not visible but has three flat topped dormers.
INTERIOR: Shop interior altered, not inspected above.
HISTORY: This site has long been developed within this long-established main shopping street, which takes its name from the old English for Market. It was widened and refronted under Baldwin's direction in c1790.
SOURCES: (Bath History: Root J: Thomas Baldwin: Bath: 1994-: 89; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects. 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 86; Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992-).

Listing NGR: ST7508564790

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