Bath Street in
Bath
Bath may refer to:
* Bathing, immersion in a fluid
** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body
** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe
* Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities
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Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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, England was built by
Thomas Baldwin in 1791. Several of the buildings have been designated as Grade I
listed building
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, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
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It was originally named Cross Bath Street as it contains the
Cross Bath
The Cross Bath in Bath Street, Bath, Somerset, England is a historic pool for bathing. The surrounding structure of the pool was built, in the style of Robert Adam by Thomas Baldwin by 1784 and remodelled by John Palmer in 1789. It is recorded i ...
. It is also the entrance to the much more recent
Thermae Bath Spa
Thermae Bath Spa is a combination of the historic spa and a contemporary building in the city of Bath, Somerset, Bath, England, and reopened in 2006. Bath and North East Somerset council own the buildings, and, as decreed in a Royal Charter of ...
. At the northern end of the street the buildings are continuous with those in
Stall Street.
The two-storey buildings have
mansard roof
A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The ...
s. Windows are pedimented and have decorative friezes. The south side is formed by numbers 1 to 8,
while the north side is numbers 9 to 16, which formed part of the Royal Baths Treatment Centre,
and are continuous with the buildings in
Stall Street.
Bath Street was used for filming in the 1995 period drama film
''Persuasion''.
See also
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References
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Grade I listed buildings in Bath, Somerset
Streets in Bath, Somerset