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Latitude: 51.3862 / 51°23'10"N
Longitude: -2.3647 / 2°21'52"W
OS Eastings: 374716
OS Northings: 165302
OS Grid: ST747653
Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.2YS
Mapcode Global: VH96L.YFQ6
Plus Code: 9C3V9JPP+F4
Entry Name: 36, BROCK STREET (See details for further address information)
Listing Date: 12 June 1950
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1395037
English Heritage Legacy ID: 510459
Also known as: 36 Brock Street including 1-4 Circus Mansions
ID on this website: 101395037
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
Tagged with: Building
BROCK STREET
(North side)
No.36
12/06/50
GV I
Includes: Nos.1-4 CIRCUS MANSIONS.
House to north corner of Brock Street and the Circus. 1754-1759 with C19 alterations. Designed by John Wood the Elder, completed by John Wood the Younger.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, hipped slate mansard roof with moulded stacks to party walls.
PLAN: Double depth.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attic and basement, five window range. Right return left terminal of Nos 19-30 Circus has most elaborate facade. Three stories enriched with superimposed orders of Roman Doric, Ionic and Corinthian paired engaged columns carrying their appropriate entablatures, and crowned by moulded coped parapet with piers over columns and horizontal ovals over the windows. Triglyph frieze to ground floor embellished with carved motifs. Brock Street entrance facade symmetrical three window range. Stepped slightly forward from right. Cornices, without entablatures, returned and parapet sweeps down to second floor cornice. Moulded architraves to six/six pane sash windows those centre and first floor left have lowered sills and nine/nine panes). Central projecting doorcase has cornice, triglyph frieze and blocking course supported by free standing Tuscan columns flanking a late C19 two panel door and plain overlight. In angle of stepped forward corner is lead bell headed downpipe.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SOURCES: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1980), 141-146, 230; N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol (1958), 129; J. Lees-Milne and D. Ford, Images of Bath (1982).
Listing NGR: ST7471665302
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