Description

656-1/30/1379

RIVERS STREET (North side)
No.5 and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as: RIVERS STREET (North side) Nos.1-15 (Consecutive))

12/06/50

GV
II
House, now flats. 1770-1775 with C20 additions. By John Wood the Younger.

MATERIALS: limestone ashlar to front, ashlar and rubble to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh slate to front and rear, with coped party wall to left and right with two ashlar stacks to right. Staircase to rear.

EXTERIOR: Nos. 5, 6 and 7 Rivers Street (qv) break forward slightly from adjoining houses to form front to north side of Catharine Place. Three storeys, attic and basement. First floor has venetian window with plate glass horned sashes, in plain reveals with continuous stone sill, continuous single wrought iron balconette; second floor has three grouped plate glass horned sashes, narrower to left and right, in plain reveals with continuous stone sill. Ground floor has two paired plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with continuous stone sill to right, to left six-panel door with flush beaded, fielded and single glazed panels with one concrete step in pedimented Ionic doorcase, one step to pennant paved crossover with cast iron foot-scraper. Basement has two six/six horned sashes in plain reveals with continuous stone sill, C20 door in ashlar infilling under crossover, limestone area steps with wrought iron handrail. One double dormer with plate glass horned sashes. Band course over ground floor and modillion cornice and coped parapet continuous with Nos 6 and 7 Rivers Street (qv). Lead downpipe to right. Rear elevation has plate glass horned sashes, wrought iron balconette to first floor.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on limestone and cement bases.

HISTORY: Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger on three parcels of land: Nos. 1-11 constructed in conjunction with Catharine Place on ground conveyed on perpetual leasehold from Sir Benet Garrard to Wood and Brock as his trustee 19/20 December 1766. Nos. 16-28 and 36-47 Rivers Street with areas behind Nos. 46 and 47 on ground conveyed from Rivers Estate (owned by Sir Peter Rivers Gay) to Wood 5 March 1768 for 99 years. Nos. 28-35 Rivers Street were constructed in conjunction with Russell Street on ground bought by John Wood and Andrew Sproule as his trustee from Thomas and Daniel Omer 30 December 1768 on perpetual freehold rents. Strip of ground on which Nos 12-15 and 48-50 Rivers Street constructed probably never acquired by Wood. Sites of Nos. 12-15 were conveyed from Rivers Estate to Thomas and James Beale on 30 December 1774 and 16 October 1776 on perpetual freehold rents.

A number of different Bath builders were responsible for implementing Wood's overall design, re Ison.

SOURCES: Building leases and rate books; Walter Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (2nd ed. 1980), 233.

Listing NGR: ST7465465482

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26896243

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