Description

RIVERS STREET
656-1/30/1407 (South side)
12/06/50 No.33 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. 1770-1775, mansard rebuilt as full third floor C19.
Part of the Rivers Street development by John Wood the Younger.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, painted to ground floor, rubble to basement, rear elevation not visible. Parapeted roof, Welsh Slate to front, not visible to rear, ashlar stack with some early clay pots on coped party wall to right of front range, not visible to rear.
EXTERIOR: Four storeys and basement, two-window front. First floor has two plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices, moulded stone sills with wrought iron balconettes on console brackets. Second floor has two similar windows in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills, third floor has two/two-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills. Ground floor has plate glass horned sash in plain reveal with stone sill to right, to left a six-panel door with flush beaded, fielded and single glazed panel in pedimented Doric doorcase with incised numerals `33¿ (probably C19); Pennant paved crossover flush with pavement shared with No.32 Rivers Street (qv). Basement has six/six-sash in plain reveal with stone sill, four-panel door under crossover, C20 area steps. Band course over ground floor; modillion cornice over second floor at former eaves continuous with No.32 Rivers Street (qv); higher hollow-moulded eaves cornice and coped parapetto raised attic.
Rear elevation not visible.
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. 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: ST7486265434

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673760

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