Description

BURLINGTON STREET
(West side)

No.18 and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
BURLINGTON STREET
Nos.16-19 (Consec))
12/06/50

GV II

House, now flats. c1786 with C19 and C20 alterations. Attributed to John Palmer. Built by Richard Hewlett.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble below basement windows, ashlar to rear. Double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh Slate to front and rear, with coped party wall with two rebuilt stacks partially in reconstituted stone to left. Staircase to front.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three bay four window front. First floor has two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills with wrought iron balconettes to left and centre, small single pane horned sash to centre right, to right plate glass horned sash in splayed reveal with stone sill in later opening to right of and lower than originally. Second floor has three plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals, to centre and left with wrought iron window guards, small casement window to far right. Ground floor has to left two plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills with wrought iron balconettes, to right 6-panel door with flush, fielded and glazed panels with cast iron lion's mask knocker in Doric doorcase with pediment removed because of repositioned staircase window, one step to Pennant paved crossover with cast iron footscraper, small three pane window to right of doorcase. Basement has two six/six sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, ashlar and C20 glazed infilling under crossover, limestone area steps refaced in concrete with wrought iron handrail. Two single dormers with two/two sashes. Band course over ground floor cut through by window to first floor right, sill band to second floor cut off to right, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Rear elevation has plate glass horned sashes, evidence of former verandah with tent roof to first floor. First floor windows formerly lowered, band course over first floor, small ashlar extension to above ground basement.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with urn tops and urn finials to centre and right, missing to left, 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: ST7471365589

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q66477586

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)