Description

MACAULAY BUILDINGS
(South side)

Nos.1 AND 2
(Formerly Listed
as: WIDCOMBE HILL
(South side) Nos
1 & 2 Macauley
Buildings)
11/08/72

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas. 1819-30 with C20 additions.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roofs.
PLAN: Broad frontage with double segmental bows, and wide single span roof incorporating cross-wing. Rear full storey deeper than front, resulting from fall across site.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys, attic and basement, each two windows, glazing bar sashes, sixteen-pane at each level to bows, central twelve-pane above original panelled doors with shallow transom lights, and to cornice hoods on brackets. No.1 has wide slated dormer incorporating two casements, and lay-light to basement. Broad mid platband, lintel, frieze, cornice, blocking course and parapet. At each end two ashlar stacks. Gabled return, right, has sixteen-pane sash at three levels, with two plain sash to lower ground floor, front cornice returns, stopped to slightly projecting gable end. Left return has inserted nine-pane lights to each floor, and large one storey gabled extension with deep sixteen-pane sash, additional stack in re-entrant between main and projecting gables. Rear wall plain, with nine and twelve-pane sashes above large flat roofed extension to No.1. No.2, in two windows, twelve and sixteen-pane above two plain, with paired plain sash at ground floor, paired plain, with door and conservatory at lower ground. Extension has large paired plain sashes at two levels.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
HISTORY: One of three pairs of similar but not identical villas, (qv 3/4 and 5/6), with extensive views to both front and rear, and externally little changed. The development was undertaken by Thomas Macaulay Cruttwell, a solicitor, on fields formerly called `The Nedges'. He purchased the ground in 1819 and the first house was completed inn 1825; the rest were finished in 1830.
SOURCES: Maurice Scott, `Discovering Widcombe and Lyncombe, Bath' (2nd ed 1993), 36.

Listing NGR: ST7636463895

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674542

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