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Latitude: 51.3865 / 51°23'11"N
Longitude: -2.3635 / 2°21'48"W
OS Eastings: 374804
OS Northings: 165331
OS Grid: ST748653
Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.38W
Mapcode Global: VH96L.ZDDZ
Plus Code: 9C3V9JPP+HJ
Entry Name: 12, Bennett Street
Listing Date: 12 June 1950
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1394748
English Heritage Legacy ID: 510152
ID on this website: 101394748
Location: Walcot, 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
Tagged with: Building
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
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