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8, Bridge Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Bath, Bath and North East Somerset

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Latitude: 51.383 / 51°22'58"N

Longitude: -2.3585 / 2°21'30"W

OS Eastings: 375148

OS Northings: 164940

OS Grid: ST751649

Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.BJP

Mapcode Global: VH96M.2HJP

Plus Code: 9C3V9JMR+5J

Entry Name: 8, Bridge Street

Listing Date: 11 August 1972

Last Amended: 15 October 2010

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1394955

English Heritage Legacy ID: 510372

ID on this website: 101394955

Location: Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA2

County: Bath and North East Somerset

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bath

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

Church of England Parish: Bath St Michael Without

Church of England Diocese: Bath and Wells

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Description


BRIDGE STREET
(North side)

No.8
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET (North side)
Nos 1-6 (consec), No.7, Nos 8 and 9)
11/08/72

GV II

House, now shop with accommodation over. c1774.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roof.
PLAN: Double depth.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and cellar, three windows wide. Same design as Nos 2-7 (qv), originally paired with No.9 (qv). Ground floor has early C20 shopfront with plate glass windows and deep fascia. First floor windows have cornice and architraves; second floor windows have architraves, all are late C19 plain plate glass sashes. Crowning cornice and parapet, mansard roof with paired flat-topped dormer, two/two sashes, stack has gone.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Bridge Street was constructed following the Council's agreement to the building of Pulteney Bridge, 1769. This house appears in Thomas Malton's drawing `View of Pulteney Bridge from Spring Gardens', 1788. A tea warehouse opened in this building in 1794.
SOURCES: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1948), 65.

Listing NGR: ST7514864940

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