Description

RUSSELL STREET
656-1/30/1451 (East side)

No.9 and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as:
RUSSELL STREET
Nos.1-18 (Consec))
12/06/50

GV II

House, now flats. c1771-1773. Architect: John Wood the Younger.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble to plinth to basement, rear elevation not visible, double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh Slate to front, not visible to rear, with coped party wall to right with two ashlar stacks with some early clay pots.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with splayed jambs with friezes and cornices and lowered moulded stone sills on cut down console brackets with wrought iron balconettes. Second floor has three plate glass sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has, to right, two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with splayed jambs with lowered stone sills; to left, a six-panel door with flush beaded, fielded and single glazed panel with one Pennant step in cyma moulded architrave with console brackets supporting moulded cornice forming hood over, two steps to Pennant paved crossover with diagonally-set paving. Basement has two six/six-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, C20 half-glazed door under crossover, C20 area steps. Two single dormers with six/six-sashes. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Rear elevation not visible.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on reconstituted stone bases.
HISTORY: Russell Street developed by John Wood in conjunction with Assembly Rooms and east end of Rivers Street on part of Holdstock's Garden or Russell's Close bought by Wood and Andrew Sproule, his trustee, from Thomas and Daniel Omer 30th December 1768.
SOURCES: Bath City Record Office, Deed Packet: 2382A 15 RUSSELL ST; T. Thorp T, `Plan of the Parish of Walcot ... Surveyed for - Gay Esq 1740'; Walter Ison, `The Georgian Buildings of Bath' ((2nd ed. 1980), 156
Listing NGR: ST7485465425

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26896263

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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