Description

656-1/30/1386

RIVERS STREET (North side)
No.12 and attached railings

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

12/06/50

GV
II
Terrace house, now flats. 1775-1780. Part of the Rivers Street development by John Wood the Younger.

MATERIALS: 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, with coped party wall with two ashlar stacks with early clay pots to right.

EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and basement. First floor has single plate glass horned sash in splayed reveals with stone sills and wrought iron balconettes to left, to right three grouped plate glass horned sashes, narrower to left and right, in splayed reveals with continuous stone sill and wrought iron balconette; second floor has four similar windows without balconettes. Ground floor has to left one similar sash in partially splayed reveal with stone sill and wrought iron balconette, to right three grouped sashes similar to first floor with continuous wrought iron balconette coming high up sides of windows and ramping down to centre front; six-panel door to centre left has flush, fielded and single glazed panel in pedimented Doric doorcase, concreted crossover flush with pavement.

Basement has one plate glass horned sash in splayed reveal with stone sill to left, two six/six-sashes in splayed reveals with continuous stone sill to right, plank door with wrought iron hinges in boarded infilling under crossover to right, ashlar infilling under crossover to left, limestone area steps to right with C20 handrail. One single and one double dormer with plate glass sashes.

Band course over ground floor, modillion cornice and coped parapet.

Rear elevation (partially visible) has plate glass sashes and small ashlar extension.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on painted 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: ST7470165469

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688742

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