Somerset Place, Bath (1)
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Somerset Place, Bath (1)
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 25 May 2012
A grand crescent distinguished by a massive broken segmental pediment containing paterae and swags and topped by a central urn. The pediment lends the terrace a slightly old-fashioned air. It is the sort of exuberant but gauche detail a provincial early Georgian builder might have put up. Disturbingly it is off-centre, a product of the building, which began in 1790, being interrupted by a lack of money and only being resumed c1820. John Eveleigh made the designs. Several houses were rebuilt after bomb damage in 1942. Grade I listed. Owned by Bath Spa University until c2005 when the freehold was sold and these are now private houses.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.392994
Longitude
-2.369757