Description

BROCK STREET
(South side)

No.1
(Formerly Listed as:
BROCK STREET (South side)
Nos.1-18 (Consecutive))
12/06/50

GV I

House to south corner of the Circus and Brock Street. 1754-1759. Designed by John Wood the Elder, completed by John Wood the Younger.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, hipped slate mansard roof with moulded stacks to party walls.
PLAN: Double depth.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attic and basement; five window range to entrance front. Three window left return, continuation of Nos 1-10 the Circus (qv). Elaborate facade has superimposed orders of Roman Doric, Ionic and Corinthian plain shafted paired engaged columns carrying appropriate entablatures and crowned by moulded coped parapet with piers over columns and pierced by horizontal ovals above windows. Triglyph frieze to the ground floor is embellished with carved motifs. Six/six pane sash windows, nine/nine panes and tall balconettes to first floor. Brock Street entrance facade similar but simpler. Parapet to left sweeps down to returned second floor cornice. Cornices are returned without entablatures; moulded architraves to windows, those to left hand ranges and some to centre and right are blind. Ground floor cornice widens to mutule cornice around enclosed porch with Roman Doric Columns in antis.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1980), 141-146.

Listing NGR: ST7470865279

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526140

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