Jane Austen Centre

1BIGD Reference number: 2635

General information

Address:
40 Gay Street
Bath
BA1 2NT (Multimap)

Opening times:
Monday Summer 10am-5.30pm Winter 11am-4.30pm (except February half term 10am-5.30pm)
Tuesday Summer 10am-5.30pm Winter 11am-4.30pm
Wednesday Summer 10am-5.30pm Winter 11am-4.30pm
Thursday Summer 10am-5.30pm Winter 11am-4.30pm
Friday Summer 10am-5.30pm Winter 11am-4.30pm
Saturday Summer 10am-5.30pm Winter 11am-4.30pm
Sunday Summer 10am-5.30pm Winter 11am-4.30pm

Telephone: 01225 443000

Fax: 01225 443018

Website: http://www.janeausten.co.uk

Email: curator@janeausten.co.uk

Costs: Adults £5.95
Seniors/Students £4.50
Children (6-15 years) £2.95
Children under 6 with an adult free
Family Ticket (2 adults and up to 4 children) £16.

Type of organisation: Private Business

Aims: The Jane Austen Centre is a new permanent exhibition which tells the story of Jane's Bath experience - the effect that living here had on her and her writing.Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath's many famous residents and visitors. She paid two long visits here towards the end of the eighteenth century, and from 1801 to 1806 Bath was her home. Her intimate knowledge of the city is reflected in two of her novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, which are largely set in Bath. The city is still very much as Jane Austen knew it, preserving in its streets, public buildings and townscapes the elegant well-ordered world that she portrays so brilliantly in her novels. Now the pleasure of exploring Jane Austen's Bath can be enhanced by visiting the Jane Austen Centre in Gay Street. Here, in a Georgian town house in the heart of the city, the visitor can find out more about Bath in Jane Austen's time and the importance of Bath in her life and work.



Areas of support offered

Leisure and Personal Development: Art; Books; Trips/Days out; Festivals; Museums; Hobbies

Geographical Areas Covered

The whole of England: No

The South West Region: Yes

Locally (Bath and NE Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire): Yes

Bath & North East Somerset: The whole of the area

Bristol: The whole of the area

South Gloucestershire: The whole of the area

Disability and Access Issues

Bus stops nearby: No

Car park nearby: No

Parking for disabled drivers: No

Pedestrian route: No

Automatic external doors: No
Will doors easily open from a wheelchair: No

Glass doors clearly marked at the centre for safety: No

Doors 900mm or more wide, with flat thresholds: No

Doors light and non sprung: No

External ramps: No

External steps: No

Lobby/porch area: No

Interior of premises bright and well lit: No

Interior automatic doors: No
Wide doors: No
Wheelchair friendly doors: No

Door frames and handles clearly visible: No

Wide unobstructed corridors (min 1200mm): No

Lift for Wheelchair users: No

Internal ramps: No

Internal steps: No

Visual fire alarm: No

Floor contrast colouring for entrances and exits: No

Able to provide on request individuals who can:
– offer general assistance: No
– assist visually impaired people: No
– sign in BSL and/or MAKATON: No
– do lip speaking: No

Loop system for hearing aid users: No

Public telephone: No

Inductive coupler for hearing aid users: No

Provide pamphlets/leaflets: No

Provision for assistance dogs: No

Toilets that disabled people can access: No


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