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Flan O'brien's

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

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Latitude: 51.3815 / 51°22'53"N

Longitude: -2.3624 / 2°21'44"W

OS Eastings: 374877

OS Northings: 164778

OS Grid: ST748647

Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.9K6

Mapcode Global: VH96M.0JGT

Plus Code: 9C3V9JJQ+H3

Entry Name: Flan O'brien's

Listing Date: 5 August 1975

Last Amended: 15 October 2010

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1395644

English Heritage Legacy ID: 511057

Also known as: Flan O'Briens

ID on this website: 101395644

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


WESTGATE STREET
656-1/40/1843 (North side)

No.21 Flan O'Brien's

Formerly Listed as:
WESTGATE STREET (North side)
No.21 County Wine Vaults)
05/08/75

GV II

Public house. c1860.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, concrete tile roof.
PLAN: Narrow frontage, with splayed corner, and long return to Saw Close, to low hipped roof on deep bracketed eaves.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys and basement, two+one+seven bays, all windows plain sash. First floor windows have form of cornice projecting from wall battered out between bays, in rhythm of one:two:two:one bays and on return, with clock in masonry surround at cornice level on splay. Ground floor has large plain arched windows set deep to arcade with splayed channelled piers with form of geometrical vermiculation to capitals, arches have shallow hollow profile, from which keys run out, cutting through moulded string-course. Doors to splay, also centre of long side, and to left hand end. Westgate Street basement access panel. Moulded plinth, stepped out to central doors, and deep eaves-band, broken through by top window heads, and deep open eaves with small fascia board and ogee gutter, on shaped wooden brackets. Two eaves stacks with band and bracketed cappings, and one to right, in Westgate Street.
INTERIOR: The pub interior is all of recent date.
HISTORY: This prominent corner building is designed in a fusion of traditional Georgian and fashionable Italianate styles, highly characteristic of this transitional period in Bath architecture, and characteristic also of mid-Victorian commercial building.
SOURCES: Neil Jackson, 'Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture' (1991), 187.

Listing NGR: ST7487764778

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