Description

HENRIETTA STREET
656-1/0/0 (West side)

No.1 (Formerly Listed as: HENRIETTA STREET Nos.1-4, 5, 6-35 (Consec))
12/06/50

GV I

End terrace house, part of a larger scheme. c1792. By Thomas Baldwin.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate mansard roof hipped to left with moulded stacks to party walls.
PLAN: Irregular plan, almost triangular, tapering to the rear.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attic and basement, three-window range. Facade spanned by modillioned pediment, modillion cornice, entablature, moulded second and first floor sill strings and ground floor platband extend over Nos 2-5 Henrietta Street (qv) to right. Horned six/six-pane sash windows, that to centre of first floor semicircular arched with radial glazing bars, cornice on moulded consoles with acanthus bases and frieze with double wheat-ear festoons and ribbons to top. Chamfered rusticated ground floor has radial voussoirs to three equal openings, that to right has set back six-panel door glazed to top and elaborate overlight. One-window left return, canted into Laura Place flanked by grand order of fluted Corinthian pilasters and right terminal of symmetrical terrace.
INTERIOR: Not inspected
HISTORY: This part of Henrietta St is shown as built up on Chantry¿s 1793 plan of Bath. This house is listed Grade I as it is intimately connected with Laura Place, part of one of the outstanding examples of town planning in late C18 England. SOURCES: (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980-: 13; ).

Listing NGR: ST7526765040

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526257

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)