13, Abbey Church Yard Bath, England
Listed Building Data
13, Abbey Church Yard has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1394005
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 12 June 1950
- Name
- 13, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
- Location
- 13, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
- District
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Grid Reference
- ST 75070 64782
- Easting
- 375070.2690
- Northing
- 164782.3840
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
ABBEY CHURCH YARD (North side) 12/06/50
No.13
GV II
House with shop. Early C18, refronted and heightened in early C19. MATERIALS: Bath limestone ashlar, rendered and painted, roof not visible. PLAN: Single depth, narrow frontage house, back-to-back with No. 16 Cheap Street (qv) EXTERIOR: Four storeys, the attic storey being full height. The ground floor has a four bay c1820-1830 shopfront in the manner of Sir John Soane, three bays of plate glass windows with double entrance door, each with single panel, to right. The bays are separated by panelled stone pilasters with acroterion caps, frieze panel and decorative wrought iron balcony above. The first floor has two twelve-pane sash windows over shop and a third in the narrow bay over the entrance to right. The top two floors both have a single tripartite sash window, four:six:four-panes over four:six:four. The upper floors do not have the additional narrow bay to right. Cornice bands between floors and to parapet, ashlar end stacks with pots INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: An integral part of the city¿s centre, this is recorded as having been the house of Charles Bave MD in 1713 (re Meecham), and was later the Grand Pump Room Library and bookshop (re Kelly's Directory).
Listing NGR: ST7507064781
