Description

656-1/30/1384

RIVERS STREET (North side)
No.10 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 C20 alterations. By John Wood the Younger.

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

EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills with wrought iron balconettes; second floor has three six/six-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills. Ground floor has to right two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills with wrought iron balconettes; to left six-panel door with flush reeded, fielded and glazed panels with cast iron lion's mask knocker, pedimented Doric doorcase, one step to pennant paved crossover with wrought iron foot-scraper. Basement has two six/six-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, plank door with wrought iron hinges and latch and three-pane overlight in ashlar infilling under crossover, C20 area steps. One double dormer with plate glass sashes.Band course over ground floor, modillion cornice and coped parapet continuous with No.11 Rivers Street (qv), lead hopperhead and downpipe attached to right.

Rear elevation partially visible, has six/six-sashes to second floor, two/two-sashes to double dormer.

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: ST7468765473

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688738

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