Description

BURLINGTON STREET
(East side)

No.8 and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
BURLINGTON STREET
Nos.5-15 (Consecutive))
12/06/50

GV II

House, now flats. c1786 with C19 and C20 alterations. Attributed to John Palmer.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, ashlar and rubble to rear; double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh Slate to front and rear, with coped party wall with two ashlar stacks to right. Staircase to rear.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement; single bay tripartite-window front. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes, narrower to left and right, in surround. Second floor has three similar sashes in splayed reveals; ground floor has to right two similar sashes in splayed reveals with continuous stone sill, to left six panel door with flush moulded, fielded and glazed panels in chamfered plain reveal, one step to pennant paved crossover. Basement has two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, plank door with overlight in ashlar infilling under crossover, no area steps. Double dormer with plate glass horned sashes. Weathered sill band to first floor and second floor; moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet, lead hopperhead at eaves to left. Rear elevation has plate glass horned sashes, C20 metal window to second half landing.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Wrought iron railings and gate with urn tops, some cut off, and urn finials to left and centre, missing to right, on limestone bases.
HISTORY: Developed in conjunction with Portland Place (qv) by John Hensley; Nos 12-15 Burlington Street, Nos 1-4 Portland Place and Nos 17-20 Portland Place on leasehold land demised to John Hensley 30 March 1782 for three lives by legatees of Morford's Estate and let out on building leases 25 March, 24 June and 31 October 1785; East side of Burlington Street and Portland Place on freehold land belonging to Hensley conveyed to Hensley and William Phillips by Duperee family 1 and 2 January 1772 and then by lease and release 23 and 24 June 1783 from Hensley, Phillips and their trustee to Daniel Tanner as trustee for Hensley alone.
SOURCES: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1980), 161; Hensley Family Papers: BUNDLES 16 AND 47; T. Thorp, Plan of the Parish of Walcot ... Surveyed for - Gay Esq 1740: 44, 45.

Listing NGR: ST7474365552

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q66480474

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)