Description

ST ANN'S PLACE
656-1/39/1531 (West side)

Nos.2, 3 AND 4

(Formerly Listed as:
NEW KING STREET
Nos 2-4 (consec) St Ann's Place)
05/08/75

GV II

Three terrace houses, part of courtyard group (qv Nos 1, and 5-9). c1771.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double Roman tile mansard roofs.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys, attic and basement, windows all twelve-pane sash, and each with two sash dormers. No.2 has paired sash with flush stone mullion at each floor, and single sash above six-panel, part-glazed door under stone hood with moulded edge, on shaped brackets. Nos 3 and 4 have three/two sash, with splayed surrounds to No.3, and with similar doors to right. No.4 also has small basement area with cast iron grille to stone curb. Each has slight plinth, dying to pavement to right, mid platband carried on exposed, full width painted wooden plate, small cavetto cornice, blocking course and parapet. Houses slightly stepped with straight joints between them. No.4 returns at upper end, with wide parapet to double roof, and two nine-pane sashes at each of four floors, with glazed door at lower ground floor level, and its south facing return, to coped gable, has two nine-pane above two twelve-pane at three levels. Rear to No.3 has dormer above twelve-pane sashes, paired to lower ground floor, and with glazed door to left, and No.2 has wide boarded gable with vertical elliptical oculus, above twelve-pane, with same lower ground floor arrangement as No.3, both of lowest level in rubble, remainder ashlar.
INTERIORS: Not inspected. Nos. 2 and 3 reported as having stairs with newel posts in form of Doric columns. Formerly in very poor condition, these now form a carefully restored group (by Aaron Evans, architect 1983-84), facing a stone-paved courtyard opening from New King Street. Part of a notable survival of artisan housing, laid out around a close.
SOURCE: Bath City Council planning file.

Listing NGR: ST7449964957

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673864

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