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Bridgwater House

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3809 / 51°22'51"N

Longitude: -2.3579 / 2°21'28"W

OS Eastings: 375185

OS Northings: 164708

OS Grid: ST751647

Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.BPT

Mapcode Global: VH96M.2KT8

Plus Code: 9C3V9JJR+9R

Entry Name: Bridgwater House

Listing Date: 12 June 1950

Last Amended: 15 October 2010

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1395324

English Heritage Legacy ID: 510737

ID on this website: 101395324

Location: Bath, 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


TERRACE WALK
656-1/41/1669 (West side)

No.2 Bridgwater House

(Formerly Listed as: TERRACE WALK No.2)
12/06/50

GV II

House with coffee house below. 1748-1750. Probably by John Wood the Elder.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar front, now rendered and painted, rubble to side walls, Welsh slate roof.
PLAN: Double depth plan with rear wing.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys and attics, four windows. Ground floor has off centre stone doorcase of high quality. Six-panel door with arched head, surround with keystone and impost blocks. Ionic half columns with broken pediment over. Platband. To left of doorway replacement bow window of twenty-four panes, to right plate glass sash. First floor has two/two pane sashes with cornices and architraves, above architraved sashes of late C18 type, six/six. Projecting modillion cornice, parapet, partly cut down in front of two flat-topped casement dormers. Hipped mansard roof with large ashlar end stacks, with pots, some missing. Rear elevation altered and with later windows.
INTERIOR: The ground floor has been comprehensively altered, formerly containing modern Building Society premises, currently (2002) undergoing further remodelling. Otherwise not inspected.
HISTORY: This building appears on Wood's plan of area in his `Essay towards a Description of Bath', 1749. For many years it was well known as The Parade Coffee House, and as such was a building of considerable social prominence, located on this busy and public street. Early photographs show the elevation to be considerably altered: early in the 20th century the building was used as an apartment building, with an inserted door to the left of the main entrance, and a large bow window to the right, when the building was occupied by Crowbrow's India House, purveyors of 'works of art, antiques, curios' (National Monuments Record).
SOURCES: Architectural Review, XVII (May 1905), 102; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980-: 140; Mowl T and Earnshaw B: John Wood Architect of Obsession: Bath: 1988-: 54; Holland E: The Kingston Estate within the walled City of Bath: Bath: 1992-: 8.

Listing NGR: ST7518564708

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