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Latitude: 51.3838 / 51°23'1"N
Longitude: -2.36 / 2°21'35"W
OS Eastings: 375044
OS Northings: 165037
OS Grid: ST750650
Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.45D
Mapcode Global: VH96M.1HQ0
Plus Code: 9C3V9JMR+G2
Entry Name: Saracen's Head Inn
Listing Date: 12 June 1950
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1395024
English Heritage Legacy ID: 510442
Also known as: Saracens Head
42 Broad Street
42 and 42A, Broad Street
ID on this website: 101395024
Location: Bath, 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
Church of England Parish: Bath St Michael Without
Church of England Diocese: Bath and Wells
BROAD STREET
(East side)
Nos.42 AND 42A
Saracen's Head Inn
(Formerly Listed as:
BROAD STREET (East side)
No.42 (Saracen's Head Inn), No.42A)
12/06/50
GV
II
Public house. c1700, with late C19 and C20 alterations.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double Roman tile roof with lead valleys and moulded stacks to the left party wall and the apexes of two forward-facing gables.
PLAN: Two unit with rear additions.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys with attics, four window range. Low coped parapet rises over two gables to front left gable has doubtful inscription `W P 1713'. Gabled right return steps slightly out and connected to St Michael's Church (qv). Small C19 paired four/two pane sash windows to each attic gable have label moulds over square moulded arises possibly former two light casements. Stopped first floor cornice, rusticated quoins. Similar four/four pane sash windows to first floor in cyma moulded architraves, ground floor cornice to left half, shallow enclosed porch to left of centre has cornice and wide cyma moulded opening to a set back C20 door. To left of porch a window similar to those on first floor, to right a late C19 shopfront flanked by panelled pilasters supporting fascia and cornice, to right C20 small-paned shop window with bolection moulded six panel door and narrow overlight, possibly C19.
INTERIOR: Ground floor much altered.
HISTORY: The building has been an inn for many years but also housed a shop and circulating library in the late C19 and early C20. No.42A was listed on 11th August 1972.
SOURCES: Mowbray Green, The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bath (1904), pl VIII and 18; W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1980), 104; The Bath Chronicle: Images of Bath: Derby (1994).
Listing NGR: ST7504465037
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