Churchill House, Southgate, Bath

Clients: Morley Fund Management - CGNU

Author: Sarah Jones

Site supervisors: Nathalie Cohen, Dave Mackie, Cordelia Hall, Catherine Drew and Andy Chopping

The first part of MoLAS' Southgate project in Bath involved the measured building survey and integrated photographic survey of Churchill House. The Churchill House site had housed a late Victorian coal-powered electricity generating station, from which the original engine shed survived. The power station was expanded and redeveloped in the 1920s and 1930s when the office areas were extended, forming a good example of neo-Georgian municipal architecture prevalent at the time, and this part of the complex was the main focus of the standing building survey. The survey will use rectified photography to produce elevations, in addition to surveyed floor plans, and an interpretive building report. The next phase of the project is scheduled for January, and will include the recording of a former dairy and milk-factory on the Southgate site.

This site report is extracted from MoLAS 2005: annual review