Description

WESTGATE STREET
656-1/40/1848 (North side)
Nos.33, 34 AND 35
05/08/75

GV II

Three houses in row, with shops, returning to Parsonage Lane. c1820, but fronts reconstructed.
MATERIALS: Ashlar, roofs not visible.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys and attic, seven window front to street plus one on splay; all sashes in plain reveals. No.33 has a blind light between two six-pane, above three four-pane at second floor and twelve-pane at first. No.34 has two six-pane lights at attic and second floors above deep four-pane to first floor, and these two properties have a continuous shopfront dating from 1934. No.35 has two four-pane windows at upper levels, with plain plate glass sashes at first floor, the same, in one bay, on the splay; modern shopfront of no interest, returned to Parsonage Lane. There are lintels with frieze, cornice; blocking course above second floor, with cornice; blocking course and parapet to the attic; all these returned to the right. The return to Parsonage Lane includes various elements suggestive of a Late Victorian campaign of elaboration rather than the survival of much earlier fabric: these include a pair of arched lights with responds and moulded archivolts, with central panelled mullion and broad surround, with panelled friezes and a cornice; above is a panel with inset corners with egg-and-dart moulding, and two putti supporting a wreath with shield, all this in good ashlar. Then, in coursed work a door surround with an eared architrave to splayed feet, with egg-and-dart, and a keystone; beyond this a lofty former window, incorporating a door, also with architrave and egg-and-dart, to a straight cornice. This lower section has a roof with double Roman tile.
INTERIOR: Not inspected. The ground floors are thoroughly altered.
SOURCE: Graham Finch, Bath City Council Shopfront Record (1992).

Listing NGR: ST7496664784

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688940

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)