Sion Hill Place, Bath

Sion Hill Place

Sion Hill Place with Summerhill at the near end
Location Bath, Somerset, England
Coordinates 51°23′41″N 2°22′21″W / 51.39472°N 2.37250°W / 51.39472; -2.37250Coordinates: 51°23′41″N 2°22′21″W / 51.39472°N 2.37250°W / 51.39472; -2.37250
Built 1818-1820
Architect John Pinch the elder[1]
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name: Summerhill and Numbers 1 to 9
Designated 12 June 1950[2]
Reference no. 443612
Location of Sion Hill Place in Somerset

Sion Hill Place in the Lansdown area of Bath, Somerset, England was designed by John Pinch the elder[1] and built between 1818 and 1820. Suspension bridge builder and brewer James Dredge, Sr. lived here in the mid 19th century.

Summerhill and numbers 1 to 9 have been designated as a Grade I listed building.[2]

The Georgian 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. The ground floor of all houses is rusticated. The houses at either end have curved segmental bows for their entire height.[2] 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.[3]

Summerhill House, which is attached to the west end of the terrace, came from Chippenham and was demolished and transported stone by stone.[2]

Famous Residents

Madame Sarah Grand, Writer, Suffragist, and sometime Lady Mayoress of Bath (alongside Mayor Cedric Chivers) lived at number 7 from c1926-1942/3.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Forsyth, Michael (2003). Pevsner Architectural Guides: Bath.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Summerhill and numbers 1 to 9". Images of England. English Heritage. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
  3. "Sion Hill, Sion Hill Place". Bath Daily Photo. 2007-07-11. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
  4. "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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