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Cambridge House

A Grade II Listed Building in Widcombe, Bath and North East Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3762 / 51°22'34"N

Longitude: -2.3513 / 2°21'4"W

OS Eastings: 375643

OS Northings: 164189

OS Grid: ST756641

Mapcode National: GBR 0QJ.LCD

Mapcode Global: VH96M.6N9V

Plus Code: 9C3V9JGX+FF

Entry Name: Cambridge House

Listing Date: 11 August 1972

Last Amended: 15 October 2010

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1395134

English Heritage Legacy ID: 510551

ID on this website: 101395134

Location: Widcombe, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA2

County: Bath and North East Somerset

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bath

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


CAMBRIDGE PLACE
(North side)

No.3 Cambridge House
(Formerly Listed as:
WIDCOMBE HILL (North side)
No.3 Cambridge Place)
11/08/72

GV II

Detached villa. c1820. Attributed to John Pinch.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, concrete tile roof.
PLAN: Compact block with low pitched hipped roof, and side entry to central lateral staircase, plus lower wing attached rear left.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys and lower ground floor, three windows. Centre light blind to first floor, blind with trompe l'oeil sash at ground floor. Twelve-pane sashes with margin light with floating cornices and light balconettes to ground floor. Lower ground floor has three wide twelve-pane sashes, with square panes. Flat pilasters at each end, slightly set in from corners, and eaves has broad flat soffit with brackets. Stacks each side. Left return has central panelled door in pilasters with entablature, on short flight of stone steps, and twelve-pane sash.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
One of a series of five similar but slightly varied villas in a group raised above the street level here; this one almost identical in the frontage to Nos 1 and 2 (qv), but without parapets.
SOURCES: Robert Bennett, `The Last of the Georgian Architects of Bath¿, Bath History IX (2002), 101.
Listing NGR: ST7564364189

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