25 at risk heritage areas or buildings in B&NES
Some 25 buildings, scheduled monuments and conservation areas are officially at heritage risk in the Bath area.
Government watchdog English Heritage’s latest At Risk Register lists the former King Edward’s School building in Broad Street, the Cleveland Baths at Hampton Row, the 19th century Victoria Bridge and 13th century Hinton Priory at Hinton Charterhouse as among the 1,700 structures and zones under threat in the south west.
The conservation areas in Wellow, Batheaston and South Stoke are among those in B&NES said to be at risk from neglect, decay or dereliction.
The annual list covers only grade 1 and grade II* buildings and areas and English Heritage is now investigating the impact of neglect on grade II structures.
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Andrew Vines, planning director for English Heritage in the South West, said: “Grade II listed buildings are the bulk of the South West’s heritage treasury. When one of them is lost, it’s as though someone has rubbed out a bit of the past – something that made your street or your village special will have gone.”
To find out more about the register, visit www.english-heritage.org.uk/risk.
Comments
by mhelenmary
Tuesday, October 16 2012, 11:26AM
“Yes that is shocking, the school in Broad Street, there are also two flats empty above a hairdressers on the corner, for years they have been. In one, the ceiling was falling down until it got repaired.
Shortage of housing, thats rubbish, the school would have made housing, but I understand we do not have enough pubs in the area.”
by freudianskip
Tuesday, October 16 2012, 8:29AM
“given the incredibly long planning saga over the Broad St school isn't it time the council either usec compulsory purchase or enforcement to ensure its maintenance, or granted planning permission and allowed the owners to renovate and use it?”
by aurea_flamma
Monday, October 15 2012, 9:16PM
“It's a tragedy that Victoria Bridge is on here - it's been in care of the council for how many years and yet is only judged to be in poor condition - while we berate home owners who don't tow the world heritage line!”