Description

RUSSELL STREET
656-1/30/1459 (East side)

No.17 Cambridge House
and attached railings

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

House. c1771-1773. Architect: John Wood the Younger.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, render to basement, ashlar to rear, single pile parapeted mansard roof with further wing to rear left, Welsh Slate to front and rear, with ashlar stacks on coped party wall to right adjacent to stack of No.18 Russell Street (qv) and to rear left.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices and moulded stone sills on 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 plain reveals with stone sills with C19 timber blind box to each window; to left, a six-panel door with flush and glazed panels with 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, three steps to Pennant paved crossover. Basement has two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with continuous stone sill, plank door and single pane window in Render infilling under crossover, C20 area steps. One double and one single dormer with plate glass sashes. Timber and stone bressumer. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Rear elevation not visible.
INTERIOR: Not inspected, but probably of interest.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on painted 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: ST7486365372

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673860

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