Description

BATHWICK HILL
(South side)

No. 10
12/06/50

GV II*

Detached villa. c1810 with C20 alterations. Probably by John Pinch.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double-pitched slate roof with moulded stacks to gable ends.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys and basement; two window front to street, three window front to garden. Coped parapet and cornice, eight/eight pane sash windows with some crown glass, C20 door to the left. The symmetrical 3-window garden front is the principal facade. A returned coped parapet and entablature is supported by a giant order of Ionic pilasters, paired to the outer ranges, and quarter pilasters flank the central range which is stepped slightly forward. Large 8/8-pane sash windows with moulded sills and a moulded ground floor string course between the pilasters. The first floor central window has a cornice and frieze with a lozenge to the centre, on moulded pilasters. Below is semi-elliptical plan portico of two pairs of fluted Ionic columns supporting an entablature and blocking course, the key pattern frieze has lozenges over the columns; French windows have a cobweb fanlight.
INTERIOR: Not inspected, but recorded by Bath Preservation Trust in 1990. This notes the presence of a cantilevered stone staircase, off the hall with a wide depressed arch between; extensive survival of reeded door architraves and six panel doors, good decorative plasterwork, original chimneypieces (that to Morning Room with Ionic columns and lion masks, and a central relief of an urn to centre). Basement divided into six rooms, retains numerous original features.
HISTORY: Among the finest late Georgian suburban villas in Bath, this house possesses a very fine masonry front to the garden elevation, which indicates how these villas were initially intended to be seen principally from the south. The street front is comparatively ordinary.

Listing NGR: ST7612764615

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q68079924

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