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Valentine Villa

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3892 / 51°23'21"N

Longitude: -2.3991 / 2°23'56"W

OS Eastings: 372323

OS Northings: 165650

OS Grid: ST723656

Mapcode National: GBR JZ.RR7D

Mapcode Global: VH96L.CBJW

Plus Code: 9C3V9JQ2+M8

Entry Name: Valentine Villa

Listing Date: 5 August 1975

Last Amended: 15 October 2010

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1396297

English Heritage Legacy ID: 511701

ID on this website: 101396297

Location: Newbridge, 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



NEWBRIDGE HILL
(South side)

No.181 Valentine Villa
(Formerly Listed as:
NEWBRIDGE HILL
No.181 Merthyr Villa)
05/08/75
II

Detached house. Late C18, refurbished and extended c1868 (first appearance in Bath Directory as a gentleman's residence).

MATERIALS: Coursed squared white limestone with Bath stone dressings, single Roman tile roof.

PLAN: Single depth house with rear outshut and kitchen wing. Built facing south with its back to road.

EXTERIOR: South (garden) elevation has two storeys, three windows wide, with additional single storey kitchen wing to right. Ground floor has three pane French windows with louvered shutters flanking central four/four-sash, which would have originally been front door before Victorian alterations. Full width glazed veranda on slight iron uprights. Above are three plain sashes. Roof with stone verges and ashlar stack with weathering at either end of ridge. Kitchen extension to right single storey with lean-to roof. Door, paired plain sash, tall kitchen stack. Rear (road) elevation has continuous outshut under catslide roof. Altered and heightened in c1868 when house was upgraded. Single storey with upper floor corridor at top of stairs giving access to upper rooms of main block. Central six-panel door with dressed surround flanked by paired Gothic windows with Caernarfon heads and stone mullion. Roof light for stair head above.

INTERIOR: Very altered decoratively but still retains cast iron range in Tudor arched kitchen fireplace.

HISTORY: Interesting example of farmhouse transformed into minor gentlemen's residence as Bath was pushed out into countryside in mid C19.

Listing NGR: ST7232365650

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