Description

WESTGATE STREET
656-1/40/1850 (North side)

No.38 The Rat and Parrot

(Formerly Listed as:
WESTGATE STREET (North side)
Nos.36-38 (Consec))
05/08/75

GV II

Public house. Early C19.
MATERIALS: Painted ashlar, roof not visible.
EXTERIOR: Four storeys, three windows, all glazing-bar sashes, three/three or two/two-pane at third floor, six/six-pane at second, and very deep six/six-pane to first floor. The ground floor has a C20 frontage with two six/six-pane and three sets of doors. Lintel, frieze, cornice, blocking course and parapet: the detail is as in the adjoining No.37, but there are straight joints each side, indicating a separate phase of construction, and the whole is set slightly lower than No.37.
INTERIOR: Comprehensively remodelled on ground and first floors; the plot is a deep one, widening out towards the back.
HISTORY: This property housed the Angel Hotel at least up to the 1920s; it has lost its elaborate canopy visible in early photographs.
SOURCE: John Hudson, 'Bath in Old Photographs' (1988), 31.

Listing NGR: ST7499164797

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688942

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas