Description

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CHEAP STREET (South side),
No.13,
ABBEY CHURCHYARD,
No. 16

(Formerly listed as: CHEAP STREET (South side), No.13)

12/06/50

GV

II

House, now shop with accommodation over. Mid C18 with late C19 alterations.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, painted on ground floor, roof not visible from street.
PLAN: Double depth plan with three elevations, to Cheap Street, to High Street and to Abbey Church Yard.
EXTERIOR: Four storeys with three bays to each elevation. String course at each floor level and to cornice, lower two match those of No.15 Abbey Church Yard adjoining, but not those of later No.14 Cheap street. Shopfronts on ground floor. High Street elevation has mid C19 shopfront with central entrance, now blocked, plate glass windows. Above are three windows in architraves. All six/six sashes, outer ones with wrought iron balconettes, top floor ones smaller, crowning pediment. Cheap Street elevation has small altered 1877 shopfront by Wilson, Willcox and Wilson, above three windows, left hand one is blind, six/six sashes, cornice and blocking course. Abbey Church Yard elevation as Cheap Street, but blind window to right hand. Ground floor has plain plate glass window and plain doorway in reveal. Stone stack with pots.
INTERIOR: Not inspected. This building has very important group value when viewed from several directions, and features prominently in many pictures of the High Street.
HISTORY: Both sides of Cheap street, a very important shopping street, were re-developed to designs by Thomas Baldwin in c1790 when the street was widened. The development included shopfronts for the full length of both sides of the street. All the shopfronts have been replaced but some of the semi-engaged columns on the party lines of the south side survive (Nos 17 and 19-20), as does the archway leading to the Abbey Churchyard.

SOURCES: (Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England: Georgian Bath Historical Map: Southampton: 1989-; Lees-Milne J and Ford D: Images of Bath: London: 1982-; The Bath Chronicle: Images of Bath: Derby: 1994-; Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992-); Mowbray Green: The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bath, plate CXXXIX.

Listing NGR: ST7509264790

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674590

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