Description

BENNETT STREET (North side),
No. 12

(Formerly listed as Circus Lodge)

12/06/50

GV II

House attached to No.19 the Circus (qv), now a museum. c1780 converted C20.

MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar facade and rubblestone right return, slate mansard roof with dormers and moulded stacks to the left part wall and right gable end.

PLAN: Double depth plan with a canted right corner and C20 rear.

EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attic and basement; three window front. Coped parapet and cornice slightly returned to the right, ground floor platband and plinth. six/six pane sash windows, six/nine panes to the ground floor front. Two windows to the second floor, that to the left is tripartite; three windows to the first floor, that to the left is Venetian; three windows to the ground floor and a right of centre pedimented Tuscan doorcase with engaged columns, a five panel door glazed to the top and a three pane overlight. One window to each floor to the left of the right return.

INTERIOR: Not inspected.

HISTORY: 1987 sale particulars in the National Monument Record date the building to c1765 and ascribe it to the elder Wood; this reports the survival of wooden stair, chimneypieces, plasterwork and a large range in former kitchen in basement.

SOURCES: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1980), 155.

Listing NGR: ST7480465331

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673799

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)