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Latitude: 51.3848 / 51°23'5"N
Longitude: -2.3631 / 2°21'47"W
OS Eastings: 374830
OS Northings: 165147
OS Grid: ST748651
Mapcode National: GBR 0QH.3CN
Mapcode Global: VH96M.0G38
Plus Code: 9C3V9JMP+WQ
Entry Name: 13 and 14, George Street
Listing Date: 5 August 1975
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1395913
English Heritage Legacy ID: 511322
ID on this website: 101395913
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
Church of England Parish: Bath St Michael Without
Church of England Diocese: Bath and Wells
Tagged with: Building
GEORGE STREET
(North side)
Nos.13 AND 14
05/08/75
GV II
Two terraced houses, now shops. No. 13 mid-C18 , No. 14 late C18, altered late C19.
EXTERIOR: No. 13, painted limestone ashlar, three-window range with coped parapet. Two plate glass sash windows to right and late C19 shopfront with door and overlight to centre and turned colonnettes between three plate glass panes under fascia and cornice to left. No. 14 to right, limestone ashlar to facade and right return, rough ashlar to left return. Double depth plan. Three storeys with attic and basement, symmetrical five-window range. Double depth slate mansard roof with stacks to returns, three dormers, coped parapet that rises over gable ends of returns, returned parapet, second and first floor sill bands and ground floor platband, painted ground floor and timber bressumer to front. Six/six-pane sash windows to second floor, horned plate glass sashes to rest. Central six-panel door, glazed to top, has tall overlight. Right return has one attic window to right, window toward corners of upper floors, and one window to centre of ground floor, No window to left return.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: A wall plaque to right of door has a lengthy inscription to effect that these premises were occupied formerly, by philatelist Henry Stafford Smith (1834-1903) who, with his brother, published from 1863 onwards, pioneer philatelic journal "The Stamp Collector's Magazine"; from this evidence, Bath was identified as the birth-place of modern philately.
SOURCES: (Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992).
Listing NGR: ST7483065147
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