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Paradise House Hotel

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

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Latitude: 51.376 / 51°22'33"N

Longitude: -2.3636 / 2°21'49"W

OS Eastings: 374786

OS Northings: 164171

OS Grid: ST747641

Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.P72

Mapcode Global: VH96L.ZP90

Plus Code: 9C3V9JGP+CG

Entry Name: Paradise House Hotel

Listing Date: 12 June 1950

Last Amended: 15 October 2010

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1395863

English Heritage Legacy ID: 511277

Also known as: 88 Holloway

ID on this website: 101395863

Location: Beechen Cliff, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA2

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


HOLLOWAY
656-1/0/0 (North side)

No.88 Paradise House Hotel
12/06/50

GV II

House, now Hotel, in pair, formerly part of Paradise Row. c1735, double-fronted c1780 with c1850-60 addition with C20 alterations.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof.
PLAN: Wide symmetrical frontage with central staircase, and with bold projecting octagonal section to both floors rear right.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys, attic and basement, three windows, all original sashes with bars. Full width slated attic or mansard has two wide-spaced windows, above central twelve-pane flanked by bold Palladian windows with unfluted Doric columns and responds, and on deep moulded sills with brackets, central arched light to left has interlaced bars. Ground floor has paired twelve-pane flanking five-panel door in thin pilasters to brackets and closed dentilled pediment, all windows have moulded stone architraves, moulding carried down to central mullion to ground floor pairs. To right of door glazed laylight to basement. Gables are coped, with ashlar stacks. To left narrow extra bay, of later C19, with hipped slate pavilion roof over pair of sashes in arches with two-coloured voussoirs and tile extrados, and central Ruskinian colonnette. Rear has twelve-pane sashes to bay, left, and four-pane to right, all with cornice and deep blocking course.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Current owner has very good coloured engraving by Thomas Robbins showing the house in considerable detail.

Listing NGR: ST7478664171


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