Description

BATHWICK HILL
(South side)

No.19 Woodland House and
attached walls gatepiers
and overthrow
12/06/50

GV II

Detached villa. c1810 with C20 alterations.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double-pitched slate roof with three dormers and moulded stacks to gable ends.
PLAN: Double depth plan with recessed two storey block to right.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys attic and lower ground floor, symmetrical three window front, and one window to right hand block. High moulded coped parapet with plinth (possibly later C19), sweeps high to returns and masks shafts of stacks, has three balustraded panels fronting dormers. Cornice, frieze, first floor sill band and ground floor platband, three/three pane sash windows to attic, six/six pane sashes to rest. Enclosed porch, probably later C19, has clasping pilasters supporting cornice and blocking course, wide margin paned two pane overlight and reeded lintel over double panelled doors. Single depth right hand block has narrow cornice and first floor sill band, six/six pane sash to first floor over C20 window and door. Garage, probably former coach-house extends from left hand corner to street. Hipped roof and parapet to front. Garden elevation 3-bays and detailed very similarly to front.
INTERIOR: Reported to be good, but was not inspected on this occasion.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached to garage and right hand corner, enclosing forecourt, ashlar wall approx. 2m high and 12m long. Opposite door, gatepiers with cornices and swept caps supporting semicircular arched cast iron overthrow. C20 gates.
HISTORY: This house, possibly designed by John Pinch the Elder, forms part of the early development of this part of Bathwick Hill.
SOURCES: `Beyond Mr Pulteney¿s Bridge¿ exhib. Cat. (Bath Preservation Trust 1987), 37.

Listing NGR: ST7625364556

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673304

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