Sion Hill Place, Bath

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Sion Hill Place

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Sion Hill Place with Summerhill at the near end
Location Bath, Somerset, England
Coordinates 51°23′41″N2°22′21″W / 51.39472°N 2.37250°W / 51.39472; -2.37250 Coordinates: 51°23′41″N2°22′21″W / 51.39472°N 2.37250°W / 51.39472; -2.37250
Built 1818-1820
Architect John Pinch the elder [1]
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name: Summerhill and Numbers 1 to 9
Designated 12 June 1950 [2]
Reference no. 443612
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Location of Sion Hill Place in Somerset

Sion Hill Place in the Lansdown area of Bath, Somerset, England was designed by John Pinch the elder [1] and built between 1818 and 1820. Suspension bridge builder and brewer James Dredge, Sr. lived here in the mid 19th century.

Lansdown, Bath

Lansdown is a suburb of the World Heritage City of Bath, England, that extends northwards from the city centre up a hill of the same name. Among its most distinctive architectural features are Lansdown Crescent and Sion Hill Place, which includes a campus of Bath Spa University.

Bath, Somerset city in Somerset, England, United Kingdom

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths. In 2011, the population was 88,859. Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 11 miles (18 km) south-east of Bristol. The city became a World Heritage site in 1987.

Somerset County of England

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Summerhill and numbers 1 to 9 have been designated as a Grade I listed building. [2]

Listed building Collection of protected architectural creations in the United Kingdom

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

The Georgian terrace of numbers 1 to 9 is made up of 4 storey houses which is symmetrical from which the centre house, number 5, stands forward and has a pediment. The ground floor of all houses is rusticated. The houses at either end have curved segmental bows for their entire height. [2] Numbers 1 to 4 were built by William Cowell Hayes a local painter, while Daniel Aust, from Walcot, built number 5 and possibly the others. [3]

Georgian architecture set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840

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Pediment element in classical, neoclassical and baroque architecture

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Rustication (architecture) masonry technique of texturing

In classical architecture rustication is a range of masonry techniques giving visible surfaces a finish that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared-block masonry surfaces called ashlar. The visible face of each individual block is cut back around the edges to make its size and placing very clear. In addition the central part of the face of each block may be given a deliberately rough or patterned surface.

Summerhill House, which is attached to the west end of the terrace, came from Chippenham and was demolished and transported stone by stone. [2]

Chippenham town in Wiltshire, England

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Famous Residents

Madame Sarah Grand, Writer, Suffragist, and sometime Lady Mayoress of Bath (alongside Mayor Cedric Chivers) lived at number 7 from c1926-1942/3. [4]

Sarah Grand British feminist writer

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References

  1. 1 2 Forsyth, Michael (2003). Pevsner Architectural Guides: Bath.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Summerhill and numbers 1 to 9". Images of England. English Heritage. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
  3. ↑ "Sion Hill, Sion Hill Place". Bath Daily Photo. 2007-07-11. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
  4. ↑ "Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand" ed Stephanie Forward and Ann Heilman (Routledge, 2000), and Sarah Grand's Death Certificate: "of 7 Zion (sic) Hill Place, Bath U.D."


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