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Latitude: 51.3857 / 51°23'8"N
Longitude: -2.3607 / 2°21'38"W
OS Eastings: 374996
OS Northings: 165246
OS Grid: ST749652
Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.3YZ
Mapcode Global: VH96M.1FCK
Plus Code: 9C3V9JPQ+7P
Entry Name: No. 2 and Attached Railings and Vaults
Listing Date: 12 June 1950
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1395743
English Heritage Legacy ID: 511153
ID on this website: 101395743
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
Tagged with: Building
FOUNTAIN BUILDINGS
No.2 and attached railings and vaults
(Formerly Listed as: FOUNTAIN BUILDINGS Nos.
1 AND 2)
12/06/50
GV II
House, now flats. c1775 with C20 alterations. Possibly by John Wood the Younger.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble below basement windows, not visible to rear, parapeted mansard roof, Welsh slate to front, not visible to rear, with coped party walls to left and right with ashlar stacks shared with Nos. 1 and 3 Fountain Buildings (qv).
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, five-window range. First floor has five six/six-horned sashes, two to left each with six further fixed panes added below, in splayed cyma moulded architraves with friezes and cornices, pediment to centre window, rising from stone sills, two to left lowered and with wrought iron balconettes. Second floor has five six/six-horned sashes in cyma-moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has four six/six-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, to centre six-panel door with flush, fielded and glazed panels in stone doorcase with cyma moulded architrave on flat surround with moulded brackets to moulded cornice, one step to pennant paved crossover. Basement has four windows, two to left blind, to right six/six-sashes, in plain reveals with splayed lintels with stone sills formed out of offset at top of plinth, three doorways and one full width opening to vaults, C20 area steps. One triple, one double and one single dormer with plate glass sashes. Timber bressumer to right and stone band course throughout over ground floor, bracketed eaves cornice and coped parapet continuous with No. 1 Fountain Buildings (qv). The change in masonry to ground floor left suggests reinstatement after removal of shopfront. Rear elevation not visible.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped and formerly scrolled heads on limestone bases.
HISTORY: this group of double-fronted houses were built by William Philips and others and incorporated an earlier house within their midst.
SOURCES:(Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980: 138-40;
Listing NGR: ST7499665246
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