Cheap Street, Bath

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Cheap Street
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Location Bath, Somerset, England
Coordinates 51°22′54″N2°21′35″W / 51.38167°N 2.35972°W / 51.38167; -2.35972
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name14, Cheap Street
Designated12 June 1950 [1]
Reference no.1395620
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name13, Cheap Street
Designated12 June 1950 [2]
Reference no.1395619
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name15-20, Cheap Street [3]
Designated12 June 1950
Reference no.1395623
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name21, Cheap Street
Designated11 August 1972 [4]
Reference no.1395664
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name3-6 Cheap Street
Designated20 December 2011
Reference no.1406040
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name7 and 8 Cheap Street
Designated11 August 2011
Reference no.1404113
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name9-10 Cheap Street
Designated20 December 2011
Reference no.1406041
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Location of Cheap Street in Somerset

Cheap Street in Bath, Somerset, England is adjacent to Bath Abbey and contains several listed buildings.

The road was known as Souter Street (meaning Shoemakers Street) until 1398. [5]

Number 13 adjoins the abbey and is Grade II* listed. [2]

Number 14 was built around 1720. The central doorway is flanked on either side by pairs of windows with elliptical arches and Doric pilasters. There are also four Ionic pilasters and a central pediment on the 1st floor above the doorway and four Corinthian pilasters on the floor above that. It is adjacent to Marshal Wade's House in the Abbey Church Yard, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. [1]

Number 15 to 19 were built as a block, including shop fronts divided by Doric columns, by Thomas Baldwin around 1789. [3]

Number 21 and The Roundhouse, which used to be known as the Abbey Wine Vaults, is a mid to late 19th century radiused round corner of Cheap Street and Stall Street. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Number 14". Images of England. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
  2. 1 2 "Number 13". Images of England. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
  3. 1 2 "Numbers 15 to 19". Images of England. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
  4. 1 2 "Number 21 and The Roundhouse". Images of England. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
  5. Wroughton, John (2006). Tudor Bath: Life and strife in the little city, 1485-1603. Bath: Lansdown Press. p. 5. ISBN   0-9520249-6-9.