Description

MILSOM STREET
(East side)

No.35 (Formerly
Listed as: MILSOM
STREET (East side)
Nos.25-36 (Consec))
12/06/50

GV II

House, now shop and workshop. c1762 altered 1927. Elevations approved for Milsom Street buildings in 1761 (Minutes 30th March 1761). Possibly by Thomas Jelly, shopfront by AJ Taylor 1927.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, ashlar and rubble to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, double Romans to front and rear, with ashlar stack with some early clay pots rising from coped party wall to right to front roof, two ashlar stacks rising from rear wall.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic, basement and three-window front. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes in splayed ovolo moulded architraves, lengthened and without sills, with friezes and cornices and with pediment to centre. Second floor has three six/six sashes in eared ovolo moulded architraves rising from stone sills. Ground floor has 1927 shopfront with plate glass window with curved pane to left to lobby to pair of half-glazed doors with overlight, in surround with panelled pilasters, frieze and cornice. Two panels of glass blocks in pavement to light basement. Two single dormers with six/six sashes in moulded architraves. Modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Moulded lead hopperhead and downpipe to left shared with No.34 Milsom Street (qv). Rear elevation partially visible has eight/eight sashes to second half-landing and second floor, two single dormers with six/six sashes in moulded architraves.
INTERIOR: Inspected 1995. Timber staircase with moulded strings, turned balusters and painted hardwood moulded tops. Six-panelled doors to stairwell with original architraves and skirtings. Original shutters survive first floor, and six-panelled door on second, original cavetto cornices and six/six windows on with crown glass in some panes. Early tiled fireplace with timber mantel, some original doors complete with hinges. C18 fireplace now with C20 tiling.
SOURCES: (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: London: 1948-: 152; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 457; Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992-).

Listing NGR: ST7494965074

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674806

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)