Sally Lunn's House Bath, England

Listed Building Data

Sally Lunn's House 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
1395829
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II*
Date Listed
12 June 1950
Name
SALLY LUNN'S HOUSE
Location
SALLY LUNN'S HOUSE, 4, NORTH PARADE PASSAGE
District
Bath and North East Somerset
Grid Reference
ST 75162 64694
Easting
375162.0000
Northing
164694.0000

Listed Building Description

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NORTH PARADE PASSAGE (North side) No.4 Sally Lunn's House (Formerly Listed as: NORTH PARADE PASSAGE No.4) 12/06/50

GV II*

House and shop. Built 1622 (lease) by George Parker, a carpenter and remodelled c1800.

MATERIALS: Limestone rubble laid in thin even courses, with ashlar dressings, painted on ground floor, pantile roof. PLAN: Narrow double depth plan, gable end to street. Partly C15 of late C17 in appearance, period which coincides with that of most famous tenant Sally Lunn.

EXTERIOR: Four storeys. Pairs of double hung sash windows of late C18 type, six/six in dressed surrounds. Continuous dripmould to each floor. Ground floor has entrance doorway to left and c1800 shopfront to right, partly glazed door with elaborately glazed rectangular light over, bowed shop window six x four. Third floor window in coped gable with oculus. Ashlar end stack with pots, further rubble stack to rear. Front originally faced northwards towards Abbey, now restored and faced with slates and has modern windows.

INTERIOR: Ground floor much altered, large bread oven in basement under pavement, other oven in party wall with a grain or flour bin and flagged stone floor. Open well staircase with squat Doric newels and slender turned columnar balusters. Third floor door has possible original hinges. Rear wall timber framed and possible remains of earlier house. Two late medieval moulded fireplace surrounds, with shallow spandrels, recorded by Mowbray Green.

HISTORY: The earlier building on this site was part of the Duke of Kingston's House in 1482. It was leased as plots of land on 15 June 1622 from John Hall to George Parker, a carpenter of Bathford, with a covenant to build within five years. Pre 1750 maps show a very narrow alley dividing it from the house to the east, with a party wall to the west, of which some of the timber frame is still visible. Sally Lunn, a pastry cook and baker, was tenant in 1680; and Ralph Allen's first post office was here in 1725. In c1750 the ground level of North Parade Passage raised to meet the new Galloway¿s Buildings, and old ground floor became basement. A gabled front facing the passage was built. A later Georgian remodelling took place faced the other way. Largely of C17 date, it graphically displays the building techniques of the earlier, pre-Wood, phase of Bath¿s fabric. In 1930 the house was restored with the aid of a grant. At this time the house

SOURCE: Holland E: The Kingston Estate within the walled City of Bath: Bath: 1992-.

Listing NGR: ST7516264694