2, Church Street Bath, England
Listed Building Data
2, Church Street 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1394045
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 12 June 1950
- Name
- 2, CHURCH STREET
- Location
- 2, CHURCH STREET
- District
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Grid Reference
- ST 75132 64702
- Easting
- 375132.0000
- Northing
- 164702.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
CHURCH STREET
No.2 (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET Nos 2-4 (consec). No. 5) 12/06/50
GV II
House, now offices. c1762 with late C18 and late C19 alterations. By Thomas Jelly for the Duke of Kingston's Estate. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, painted on ground floor, with pantile roof. STYLE: Palladian. PLAN: Deep single depth backing onto existing 1727 addition to Ralph Allen's house (qv York Street), two now one address, but listed separately because of their completely different character and provenance. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement. Five windows to whole, but two left hand windows part of No.7 York Street (qv). Ground floor has central plain recessed door with rectangular overlight. Two sash windows on either side, to left late C18 type with six/six sashes, to right late C19 plate glass plain sashes. Top of basement windows show in plinth below. Platband. First floor windows all late C18 type, six/six, but two right hand ones have dropped sills and are six/nine. Upper floor all six/six. Modillion cornice, parapet, mansard roof with three dormers, two are paired, single to right, all flat topped and with plain sashes, stone stack with pots. INTERIOR: Not inspected. This house appears to have been a part of the development leased to Thomas Jelly in 1762. SOURCES: (Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 457; Holland E: The Kingston Estate within the walled City of Bath: Bath: 1992-; Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England: Georgian Bath Historical Map: Southampton: 1989-). Listing NGR: ST7513264702
