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4 and 5, Union Passage

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.382 / 51°22'55"N

Longitude: -2.3602 / 2°21'36"W

OS Eastings: 375028

OS Northings: 164829

OS Grid: ST750648

Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.B3W

Mapcode Global: VH96M.1JMF

Plus Code: 9C3V9JJQ+QW

Entry Name: 4 and 5, Union Passage

Listing Date: 5 August 1975

Last Amended: 15 October 2010

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1395412

English Heritage Legacy ID: 510818

ID on this website: 101395412

Location: Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA1

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


UNION PASSAGE
656-1/41/1704 (West side)

Nos.4 AND 5

(Formerly Listed as:
UNION PASSAGE (West side)
Nos.3-6 AND 6A (Consec))
05/08/75

GV II

Shops with accommodation over. c1806, altered late C20. Building probably supervised by City Architect, John Palmer, but to earlier (c1791) elevations by Thomas Baldwin.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, now painted, Welsh slate roofs, largely hidden from street.
PLAN: Single depth plan, back-to-back with Nos 19-23 Union Street (qv except No.23).
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic only partially visible. Moulded cornice, parapet, mansard roof. First floor sill band. Six windows to No.4 (originally two houses) and two windows to No.5, glazing bar sashes, six/six in plain reveals. First window from left of No.4 been replaced by small paired windows with raised sills. Late C20 shopfronts.
INTERIORS: Nothing of special interest survives on ground floors, interiors otherwise not seen.
HISTORY: Undertaken as part of the scheme of improvement for the City centre following the Bath Improvement Act of 1789. Union Passage is a street line known to survive from the Saxon period, previously Cox Lane, it is shown on Smith's Map of 1588.

Listing NGR: ST7502864829


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