City Walls (Remains of)
CITY WALLS (REMAINS OF), OLD ORCHARD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396232
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- City Walls (Remains of)
- Statutory Address:
- CITY WALLS (REMAINS OF), OLD ORCHARD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396232
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- City Walls (Remains of)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CITY WALLS (REMAINS OF), OLD ORCHARD STREET
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CITY WALLS (REMAINS OF), OLD ORCHARD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7516164625
Details
12/06/50
OLD ORCHARD STREET
City Walls (remains of)
GV
II
Town wall. C4, repaired/rebuilt in medieval times. Coursed squared limestone, battlemented parapet. Four courses X twenty metres survives.
HISTORY: Part of the Roman town wall of Bath, built in stone in C4, rebuilt in Middle Ages and largely demolished in 1760's. This stretch was almost completely demolished in c1959, and present appearance dates from then. This constituted the most considerable remaining section in the city and formerly stood approx 6m. high until its reduction in 1959.
SOURCES: B. Cunliffe, The City of Bath (1986), 171.
Scheduled Monument ref: OCN BA 114
Listing NGR: ST7516164625
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511634
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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