Description

NORTH PARADE

No.4
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTH PARADE
Nos.2-6 (Consec))
10/06/50

GV II*

House, now office. 1740, restored late C20. By John Wood the Elder.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roof.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three windows wide. Platband at first floor level. Ground floor has eight-panel door in plain architrave, two six/six sash windows of late C18 type. Wrought iron area railings, basement has two nine/six-sashes. First floor has three sashes as above but with dropped sills, six/nine, and with corniced heads, plain architraves. Second floor six/six with plain architraves. Dentil cornice, parapet, mansard roof, three flat topped dormers, with three/six sashes. Ashlar ridge stack to right with pots.
INTERIOR: Not inspected. Decorative plasterwork to stairs includes a moulded ceiling panel over the rounded half-landing to the stairs (illus. In Ison, pl 120a). No. 4: see Ison, plate 120a for photograph of enriched plaster ceiling to semi-circular apse on first half landing.
HISTORY: Part of John Wood's uncompleted scheme for the Abbey Orchard, 1740-1748.
SOURCES: Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: London: 1948-: 145; 910; Mowl T and Earnshaw B: John Wood Architect of Obsession: Bath: 1988-: 135-147.

Listing NGR: ST7521764679

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532675

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6