Description

656-1/30/1383

RIVERS STREET (North side)
No.9 and attached railings

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

12/06/50

GV
II
Terrace house, now flats. 1770-1775 with C19 and C20 alterations. By John Wood the Younger.

MATERIALS: limestone ashlar to front and rear, painted up to first floor to front, double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh slate to front, double Romans to upper slope to rear with Welsh slate to lower, coped party wall to right with two ashlar stacks with early clay pots. Staircase to front.

EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three C19 two-light timber mullion and transom casement windows in splayed reveals, lowered and with continuous balcony with moulded edge to stone deck on cast iron brackets, wrought iron balustrade, evidence of former tent roof. Second floor has three plate glass sashes in plain reveals with stone sills. Ground floor has to right two two/two-sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills, to left six-panel door with flush moulded and glazed panels with cast iron lion's mask knocker, one pennant step in painted pedimented Doric doorcase, one step to pennant paved crossover with cast iron foot-scraper. Basement has one plate glass sash in splayed reveal with stone sill, half-glazed door under crossover, no area steps. Double dormer with plate glass sashes.

Band course over ground floor, modillion cornice and coped parapet continuous with No.8 Rivers Street (qv), lead downpipe to left shared with No.8 Rivers Street.
Rear elevation (partially visible) has full width full height bay with C19 and C20 windows to first floor, three two/two-sashes to second floor, double dormer with plate glass sashes.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on limestone 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: ST7468165475

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26896248

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