Description

BATHWICK STREET
(North side)

Nos. 12-21 (Consec)
12/06/50

GV II

Terrace of ten houses stepped slightly uphill in three groups from No.12 to the left. c1790. By Thomas Baldwin as a part of the Bathwick Estate scheme.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched slate mansard roofs with paired and triple dormers and moulded stacks to left party walls and gable ends.
PLAN: Double depth.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys attics and basements; each house has one wide tripartite window to each floor. Semicircular-arched openings and fanlights to six panel doors to the right, between Nos. 18 and 19 taller flat arches to paired entrances, a passage to the rear of No.18, and a door with one window above to No.19 which is two window range; (Nos. 18-21 are a group). Continuous coped parapets, cornices and friezes, second floor sill bands, ground floor cornices, banded rustication below the ground floor sills and a grand order of pilasters with tall foliate capitals flank each group. Plain architraves to the second and ground floor tripartite windows; four narrow pilasters with consoles rise from the ground floor cornice to flank the first floor windows, support dentil cornices and friezes with double-drop festoons and paterae to the sides and form plain aprons to the windows. No.12 has six/six pane sash windows to the attic and second floor and plate glass sashes to the rest, two radial glazing bars to the fanlight and a late C19 cast iron balcony to the first floor. No.13 has plate glass sash windows to the attic, six/six pane sashes to the rest, a blocked fanlight and an early C19 balcony to the first floor. No.14 has plate glass sash windows, a triple dormer and a plain fanlight. No.15 has six/six pane sash windows to the attic and ground floor (with horns) and plate glass sashes to the upper floors; early C19 balcony to the first floor; radial glazing bars to the fanlight a mid/late C19 six panel door with bolection-moulded panels. No.16 has six/six pane sash windows and a plain fanlight. No.17 is similar with a blocked fanlight. No.18 has plate glass sash windows and a plain fanlight under a flat-arched passage entrance to the right. No.19 two-window range, has a tall margin paned overlight over a door to the left and six/six pane sash windows. No.20 has plate glass sash windows to the attic, six/six pane sashes to the rest and a plain fanlight. No.21 has plate glass sash windows, margin panes and anthemion motifs to the fanlight, and roundels to the central panels of the door.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Benjamin Barker, the `English Poussin', a noted landscape painter, exhibited from No.16 in 1800.
SOURCES: Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 85; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1980 ed), 168.

Listing NGR: ST7558665406

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673426

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