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Bath stone

noun

  1. a kind of limestone used as a building material, esp at Bath in England
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Built of the creamy warm-tone limestone called “Bath stone,” the cityscape is a triumph of the Neoclassical style that dominated the Georgian era.

The building is a rectangular block of four floors, clad in reconstituted Bath stone, and retains many of its original fittings, including aluminium doors and rubber seals which formed part of a pressuring system to counteract draughts.

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The property is on a quiet lane in Bath’s historic center, the entirety of which is a Unesco World Heritage site known for its lovely Georgian architecture and golden limestone, called Bath stone.

Highclere, a honey-colored, Bath stone colossus, looms over the television series, a central character in the story.

The creamy surface is crushed Bath stone, often used even in brick towns for important public buildings.

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