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The magnificent Eagle House is marked with a plaque to celebrate its historical links to the Suffragette movement
Eagle House
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Two homes have come up for sale in the Eagle House building, which was once a refuge for suffragettes
Annie Kenney, Mary Blathwayt, who lived at Eagle House, and Emmeline Pankhurst, pictured in 1910, planting a tree in a nearby Batheaston field
Emmeline Place is a four-bed private entranced property with its own garden, and taking up one wing of the grade II listed Eagle House in Batheaston. Also up for sale in the same building is the Garden Villa, a three-bed split level home with a courtyard. And whilst Eagle House possesses significant aesthetic and historic value for both its neoclassical façade and links to Bath’s master architect, John Wood the Elder (responsible for Queen Square and The Circus), it is socially significant due to its regular use by suffragettes throughout the early 20th century. In the 1880s Eagle House belonged to Colonel Linley Blathwayt and his wife Emily who, on retiring, wanted a place to indulge their love of nature and horticulture. It was during this period the house became synonymous with the suffragette movement. Emily and her daughter Mary attended Bath Women’s Suffrage Society meetings and become increasingly active in the fight for votes of women. The property also acted as a refuge for suffragettes who had been released from prison after hunger strikes, and its notable guests included Emmeline Pankhurst, Adela Pankhurst and Annie Kenney. Emmeline Place has a guide price of £935,000, while the Garden villa is on for£735,000. For more: Savills Bath, Edgar Buildings, 17 George St, Bath; www.savills.co.uk
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