Sion Hill Place in the Lansdown area of Bath,

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, England was designed by John Pinch the elder and built between 1818 and 1820. Suspension bridge builder and brewer

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lived here in the mid 19th century. Summerhill and numbers 1 to 9 have been designated as a Grade I

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. The

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terrace of numbers 1 to 9 is made up of 4 storey houses which is symmetrical from which the centre house, number 5, stands forward and has a

pediment Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds. A pedim ...

. The ground floor of all houses is rusticated. The houses at either end have curved segmental bows for their entire height. Numbers 1 to 4 were built by William Cowell Hayes a local painter, while Daniel Aust, from Walcot, built number 5 and possibly the others. Summerhill House, which is attached to the west end of the terrace, came from Chippenham and was demolished and transported stone by stone. Famous Residents Madame

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, Writer, Suffragist, and sometime Lady Mayoress of Bath (alongside Mayor

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) lived at number 7 from c1926-1942/3."Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand" ed Stephanie Forward and Ann Heilman (Routledge, 2000), and Sarah Grand's ''Death Certificate'': "of 7 Zion (sic) Hill Place, Bath U.D."

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Houses completed in 1820 Grade I listed buildings in Bath, Somerset Streets in Bath, Somerset {{UK-listed-building-stub

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