8, Upper Church Street Bath, England
Listed Building Data
8, Upper 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1395474
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 12 June 1950
- Name
- 8, UPPER CHURCH STREET
- Location
- 8, UPPER CHURCH STREET
- District
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Grid Reference
- ST 74607 65397
- Easting
- 374607.0000
- Northing
- 165397.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
UPPER CHURCH STREET 656-1/30/2545 (East side) No.8
(Formerly Listed as: UPPER CHURCH STREET No.1 (Park View House) & Nos 2-8 (consec)) 12/06/50
GV II*
House at corner with Upper Church Street and Catharine Place and taller than adjacent houses. c1780. Probably developed by John Wood the Younger. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched slate mansard roof with three dormers and moulded stacks to party walls. PLAN: Double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attic and basement, five-window front. Returned coped parapet, modillion cornice, ground floor platband and plinth, painted basement, six/six-pane sash windows all without horns, those to front lower floors with splayed reveals, those to first floor with semi-elliptical plan balconettes, to right of centre pedimented stone Tuscan doorcase with engaged columns and set back six-panel door. Four-window left return in Catharine Place has mostly blind windows to right, left hand range has six/six-pane sash windows, tripartite window to second floor, Venetian window with balconette and splayed reveals to first floor and similar flat arched window to ground floor. INTERIOR: Not inspected, but 1945 photos in the National Monuments Record reveal fine plasterwork: overmantel panel containing fine oval medallion based on the antique suspended from strings of husks looped and festooned over paterae, above fireplace with stone surround, anthemion-enriched consoles to either side. Also contains a first floor music room with coved ceiling, with star burst to centre and musical trophies within fronds, fronting Catharine Place. Listed Grade II* on account of interior. SOURCES: Walter Ison, 'The Georgian Buildings of Bath' (2nd ed 1980), 211.
Listing NGR: ST7460765397
