9 And 10, Union Passage

UNION PASSAGE 656-1/41/1706 (West side) Nos.9 AND 10 05/08/75

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.8 AND 9 UNION PASSAGE. Shops with accommodation over, now part of same block, and same commercial premises (Next) as Nos 16 and 17 Union Street (qv). c1806, with C20 additions, but two evidently built separately having different floor levels. Building probably supervised by City Architect John Palmer, but to earlier, c1791, elevational designs by Thomas Baldwin. MATERIALS: Painted limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs, largely hidden from street. PLAN: Single depth plan, back-to-back with Union Street. EXTERIOR: Four storeys, splayed corner with Northumberland Place. Five windows to Union Passage, (three:two), one to corner, two to Northumberland Place (four together with No.16 Union Street). No.9 has three windows to each upper floor, all late C19 plate glass sashes in plain reveals, first floor sill band. Ground floor blank with modern service door, shopfront having been removed. Moulded cornice above second floor, full height storey above, without windows, parapet, mansard roof. No.10 has sill bands at each floor, six/six sashes, blind one on first and third floors on either side of corner, top floor corner window casement. Full four storeys. Late C20 `Regency/Victorian' shopfront, continues round corner into Northumberland Place. Cylindrical lantern at second floor level. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: Undertaken as part of the scheme of improvement for the City centre following the Bath Improvement Act of 1789. Union Passage is a street line known to survive from the Saxon period; previously Cox Lane, it is shown on Smith's map of 1588.

Listing NGR: ST7502364859