Description

WESTON PARK
656-1/13/1863 (North side)
Summerfield House
05/08/75

GV II

Detached villa, now apartments, on site which slopes down at the front. c1860. Limestone ashlar, slate roof with dormers and moulded stacks to coped gable ends. Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys with attic and lower ground floor; symmetrical seven-window front. Two shallow canted bays flank the south three-storey garden front. The coped parapet has a panel of pierced slits to each facet; a cornice following the contour of the front and the returns; a second floor sill band, returned first floor platband, and plinth. Shallow segmental arches with keystones over two/two-pane sash windows with horizontal glazing bars to the second and ground floors, flat arches to plate glass sash windows to the first floor. The space between the bays on the ground floor is spanned by porch with a lintel supported by moulded corbels at the sides and square pillars with caps similar to the corbels flanking a set back C20 door. The entrance (virtually to the first floor) is approached by steps to the rear of the right return. A cornice on consoles on the platband is over a semicircular arch with keystone over a plain fanlight and a six-panel door with bolection moulding. The door is flanked by semicircular arched windows, that to the left is blind; above is window similar to others on the second floor and above that, to centre of the cornice is a small semicircular arched window in the stack.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
HISTORY: The house first appears in the Bath Directory for 1862. In its Baroque Classical elevations it displays the mid Victorian's rediscovery of Bath's Georgian architecture. The house was sub-divided in 1985.

Listing NGR: ST7324366159

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688957

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)