Description

WESTON PARK
656-1/13/1860 (North side)

Mountnessing and Beechen House

(Formerly Listed as:
WESTON PARK
Mountnessing and Heathside)
05/08/75

GV II

Former villa, now two dwellings. 1861-1862.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof with modillion cornices to stacks. Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys with attics and basement; symmetrical five-window fronts to entrance and rear. Plate-glass sash windows. Following the contour of wide shallow canted bay to the centre of the south front and then along the returns are a coped parapet with balustraded panels above each window; a modillion cornice, a first floor sill string course with brackets to the windows; a ground floor platband with keystones to the raised surrounds of the ground floor windows dying into it; rusticated quoins and a plinth. Beechen House occupies the left hand window range and has a C20 rear wing. Mountnessing is four-window range including the windows of the canted bay. Those to the first floor have sliding louvred shutters, those to the ground floor have sun-blind boxes to the tops. The entrance is in the symmetrical three-window right return. Features are similar to those at the front; a prostyle Tuscan porch has a balustraded balcony above the cornice, the coping coincides with sill string course. The flanking first floor windows are blind.
INTERIOR: Four-panel doors, the front room has splayed window openings with panelled shutters, an ornamental cornice and a pink-and-black marble fireplace with keystone to a wide semicircular arch (probably over a former cast iron arch-plate register grate).
INTERIOR: Not inspected but reported as having the original staircase, four-panel doors and some marble fireplaces.
HISTORY: The house first appears in the Bath Directory for 1862. It was designed in a Palladian Revival style, showing the revival of interest in Bath's Georgian architecture. The house was sub-divided in 1952.

Listing NGR: ST7321866181

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688948

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover