Description

ST JAMES'S STREET
656-1/29/1558 (West side)

No.8 St Andrews Post Office

(Formerly Listed as:
ST JAMES'S STREET Nos 1-9 (consec)
& No.10 (St James's Wine Vaults Public House))
12/06/50

GV II

Post Office with accommodation over. c1790-1793 with C20 additions. By John Palmer.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, painted up to first floor sill band, ashlar and rubble to rear, artificial slate double pile parapeted mansard roof with coped party wall to left with two rebuilt stacks in brick and ashlar, rendered to rear. Staircase to rear.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, single bay three-window range. First floor has three grouped plate glass horned sashes, narrower to left and right, in splayed reveals with continuous wrought iron balconette, second floor has three similar windows in plain reveals with continuous stone sill, ground floor has to left large C20 plate glass window, to right door with two flush, two fielded and single glazed panel with pennant step in pedimented Doric doorcase with Doric pilasters. Double dormer with plate glass sashes. Plinth, band course over ground floor and sill band to first floor continuous with left side elevation of No.38 St James's Square (qv), moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet. Two openings to basement windows in pavement infilled with glass bricks. Rear elevation, partially visible, has plate glass sashes and C20 windows to upper floors.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Part of the incomplete St James's Square development on land leased by Fielder, King, Hewlett and Broom[e] from Sir Peter Rivers Gay 25 March 1790. St James's Street forms one of four diagonal approaches to St James's Square, which together exemplify application of Picturesque principles to town planning.
SOURCES: Bath City Archives, 'Abstract of title of Sir J F Rivers ... to property sold 1856': DEED PKT 2379 & MAPS.

Listing NGR: ST7449265548

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673897

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