Description

RUSSELL STREET
656-1/30/1457 (East side)

No.15 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, ashlar and rubble to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh Slate to front, concrete tile to rear with coped party wall with two ashlar stacks with some early clay pots to right.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three two/two-sashes to left with horns, in splayed ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices with lowered moulded stone sills on console brackets with wrought iron balconettes. 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 reeded, fielded and single glazed panel with one Pennant step in cyma moulded architrave with flat surround with heavy console brackets supporting projecting moulded cornice forming hood over, two steps to cement-covered crossover. Basement has two six/six-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, C20 area steps. Two single dormers with plate glass sashes. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Lead hopperhead and downpipe attached to right shared with No.16 Russell Street (qv). Rear elevation partially visible has glazing bar sashes, plate glass to dormers.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings 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: ST7486365386

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26896270

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