Description

RIVERS STREET
656-1/30/1406 (South side)
12/06/50 No.32 and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as:
RIVERS STREET (South side)
Nos 32 & 33.
No.34 (Russell House).
No.35 (Rivers House))

GV II

Terrace house, now flats. 1770-1775.
Part of the Rivers Street development by John Wood the Younger.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble to basement, rear elevation not visible. Double pile parapeted mansard roof, stone slates to upper slope to front, Welsh Slate to lower, not visible to rear, has two ashlar stacks with some early clay pots built up against flank wall of No.1 Brunswick Place (qv) adjoining to left.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, two-window front. First floor has two six/six-sashes, broader to left, in ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices and moulded stone sills on console brackets. Second floor has two similar sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has to left six/six-sash in plain reveal with flanking narrow blind windows in plain reveals with continuous stone sill, to right six-panel door with flush beaded, fielded, and single oval glazed panels in stone doorcase with ovolo moulded architrave, frieze and cornice, pennant paved crossover flush with pavement shared with No.33 Rivers Street (qv).
Basement has six/six-sash in plain reveal with stone sill, C20 window in ashlar infilling under crossover, no area steps. Hipped double dormer with six/six-sashes in moulded architraves. Band course over ground floor; modillion cornice continuous with No.33 Rivers Street; coped parapet. Lead hopperhead at eaves to right.
Rear elevation not visible.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings with lifting section 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. The strip of ground on which Nos 12-15 and 48-50 Rivers Street were constructed was probably never acquired by Wood. The sites of Nos. 12-15 were conveyed from the 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: ST7486865434

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688762

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