Description

BURLINGTON STREET
(East side)

No.13 and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
BURLINGTON STREET
Nos.5-15 (Consec))
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, double Romans and Welsh slate to front, double Romans to rear, two ashlar stacks on coped party wall to right. Staircase to rear.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, single bay tripartite-window front. First floor has three grouped plate glass horned sashes, narrower to left and right, in aedicular surround with stone piers between windows formed as pilasters. Second floor has three similar sashes in plain reveals. Ground floor has to right two plate glass horned sashes in plain 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 six/six sashes in plain reveals with continuous stone sill, C20 door and window in rendered infilling under crossover, C20 area steps. Double dormer with plate glass horned sashes. Weathered sill band to first floor, sill band to second floor; moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet; lead hopperhead at eaves to left. Rear elevation has plate glass sashes, casements to double dormer; lead hopperhead at eaves to right.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with cast urn top with urn finial to centre, missing to left and 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; Thorp T: Plan of the Parish of Walcot ... Surveyed for - Gay Esq 1740: 44, 45.

Listing NGR: ST7474865585

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q66477584

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