Trim Street in
Bath
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Somerset, England is an historic street, built in 1707, of shops and houses, many of which are
listed buildings. It was named after George Trim who owned the land.
Number 5, which is also known as General Wolfe's house, is a two-storey building with a
parapet and
rusticated quoins, built by Thomas Greenway. The doorway has
Ionic pilasters and a
tympanum decorated with the implements of war. General
James Wolfe was staying in the house when
William Pitt, the elder commanded him to lead an expedition to
Quebec.
Numbers 6 and 7 are three-storey houses with a
mansard roof
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,
as are number 8
and 9.
Number 10 dates from the late 18th century. It has 3 storeys plus an attic and
mansard roof
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. The doorway has
Doric columns and a
pediment.
Numbers 11 to 13 form a block of three- and four-storey buildings now used as shops,
while the 4 storey block at number 15 to 17 is still residential.
Number 14 and number 9 are 3 storey residential buildings.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen (; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots of ...
also lived in Trim Street, although her house is no longer there. This was the Austen family's fourth address in Bath, each progressively cheaper and less desirable than the last.
The
Unitarian Church was built in 1795 by
John Palmer. The
apse was the added and interior altered in 1860.
In 1809 the antiquarian
Joseph Hunter, took up the post of Minister at the Chapel, there he met and married Mary Hayward,
with whom he would have six children.
See also
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List of Grade I listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset
References
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Grade I listed buildings in Bath, Somerset
Streets in Bath, Somerset