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Latitude: 51.3798 / 51°22'47"N
Longitude: -2.3479 / 2°20'52"W
OS Eastings: 375881
OS Northings: 164583
OS Grid: ST758645
Mapcode National: GBR 0QJ.F6V
Mapcode Global: VH96M.8L33
Plus Code: 9C3V9MH2+WR
Entry Name: 40, Sydney Buildings
Listing Date: 11 August 1972
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1395260
English Heritage Legacy ID: 510669
ID on this website: 101395260
Location: Bathwick, 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
Tagged with: Building
SYDNEY BUILDINGS
656-1/42/1629 (West side)
No.40
(Formerly Listed as:
SYDNEY BUILDINGS
No.39 (Sydney Lodge).
No.40 (Preston House))
11/08/72
GV II
House to left end of irregular terrace that backs onto Kennet and Avon canal. c1820.
MATERIALS: Painted limestone ashlar, roof unseen, moulded stacks to right party wall.
PLAN: Double depth plan.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys with lower ground floor to rear, two-window front. House steps slightly forward from No.39 (qv) to the right but parapet, cornice, first floor sill band, and ground floor platband are continuous. Banded rustication to ground floor with radial voussoirs and slightly dropped keystones over flat arched recesses to ground floor. Six/six-pane sash windows, those to first floor have balconettes, to left shallow blocked overlight with lozenge panel and reeded lintel over five-panel door glazed to top.
INTERIOR: Not inspected. Two rooms per floor. Bath Preservation Trust's Interiors Survey recorded interior in 1990, reports survival of cantilevered stone staircase with mahogany hand-rail; alcoves or cupboards flanking ground floor chimneypieces; scrolled foliate plasterwork to drawing room cornice; reeded architraves with paterae roundels to corners; six-panel doors; fireplaces mainly blocked; dining room to lower ground floor with stone chimneypiece, scrolled plaster cornice.
HISTORY: A design matching this elevation was submitted to the Bathwick Estate Office in 1820.
SOURCES: Bath Preservation Trust, 'Beyond Mr Pulteney's Bridge' (exhib. Cat. 1987), 40.
Listing NGR: ST7588164583
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