7 And 7A, Broad Street

BROAD STREET (West side) Nos.7 AND 7A (Formerly Listed as: BROAD STREET (West side) Nos.4-7 AND 7A (Consecutive)) 05/08/75

GV II

Two shops with accommodation over. c1800 front range with mid C17 wing to rear of No.7A with early C19 and 1919 shopfronts. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front and rear of front range, C17 wing rubble with remains of old limewash and with some later rebuilding in ashlar. Front range has parapeted mansard roof, Welsh slate to front and to rear of No.7A, artificial slate to rear of No.7 with ashlar left and right end stacks, to left truncated, to right with early clay pots; C17 wing to rear of No.7A has hipped roof covered in pantiles with ashlar stack rising from side wall. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement; three window front. Ground floor of No.7 has 1919 shopfront by A.J. Taylor; No.7A has altered early C19 shopfront. First floor has three six/six sashes in plain reveals with stone sills. Second floor has three similar windows. To the rear of 7A is an unusual survival comprising a later C17 outshut. In the north wall is a long four-light mullioned window with doorway, beneath one continuous drip-mould; stone mullioned windows to the south wall concealed behind the later Georgian frontage. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Another unusual survival of concealed C17 fabric in Broad St (cf No 3), displaying the pre-Wood venacular. Gilmore's Map of 1694 shows a building in this position. SOURCRES: M. Hamilton, Bath before Beau Nash: Bath (1978); G. Finch, Shopfront Record, Bath City Council (1992).

Listing NGR: ST7501965051