Description

RUSSELL STREET
656-1/30/1455 (East side)

No.13 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, ashlar and rubble to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, artificial slate to front and rear, with coped party wall with two rebuilt ashlar stacks to right
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement with further rooms added in roof to rear; three-window front. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes in splayed ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices with lowered moulded stone sills on cut down console brackets. Second floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has, to right, two plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills; to left, a six-panel door with flush beaded, fielded and glazed panels and cast iron ring knocker with single Pennant step in cyma moulded architrave with flat surround with heavy console brackets supporting projecting moulded cornice forming hood over, single step to Pennant paved crossover with part of damaged wrought iron footscraper remaining. Basement has two six/six-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, C20 glazed door under crossover partially infilled in ashlar and with blocked four-pane overlight, limestone area steps with Pennant inserts to treads. One double and one single dormer with six/six-sashes. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Lead hopperhead and downpipe to left. Similar pipe to right shared with No.14 Russell Street (qv). Link horn attached to right of door. Rear elevation partially visible has six/six-sashes to second floor and in dormers, C20 glazed door inserted at first floor level, plate glass sashes to first floor and second half-landing of staircase.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings incorporating simple lamp standard adjacent to front door and gate with shaped heads on limestone 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: ST7485965401

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26896268

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