Bath High School Hope House

LANSDOWN ROAD (West side)

Hope House (Bath High School) 12/06/50

GV II

Mansion house, now school. 1790 with C20 alterations. By John Palmer. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof, flat to top with C20 dormers. PLAN: Square plan with four-window stepped forward block to east Lansdown entrance facade and full height segmental bows to south and west fronts (the east front has C20 additions). EXTERIOR: Two storeys with attic to street front, three storeys to rest. Four-window front to street. Building encircled by parapet with balustraded panels and moulded coping, modillion cornice and lintel frieze and ground floor platband. To Lansdown front are six/six-pane sash windows with balconettes to first floor, six/six-panes to ground floor and blind window to left. Central doorcase has reeded edges to segmental arched stone roof supported by walls with thin engaged Tuscan columns to fronts (similar to that of No.1 Lansdown Place East (qv), and another at No.16 Brock Street (qv)) to double three-panel doors and segmental-arched overlight. Single window set back side wings have six/six-pane sash windows to first floor. To left has single storey infill with cornice and blocking course over blind window. To right two-storey infill with coped parapet, cornices to first and ground floors and blind window. Five-window west front rises from rusticated lower ground floor plinth with radial voussoirs to windows and central C20 double doors. Three windows to upper floors of bow have balconettes. South front similar. INTERIOR: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7473765816