Description

FOUNTAIN BUILDINGS

No.2 and attached railings and vaults
(Formerly Listed as: FOUNTAIN BUILDINGS Nos.
1 AND 2)
12/06/50

GV II

House, now flats. c1775 with C20 alterations. Possibly by John Wood the Younger.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble below basement windows, not visible to rear, parapeted mansard roof, Welsh slate to front, not visible to rear, with coped party walls to left and right with ashlar stacks shared with Nos. 1 and 3 Fountain Buildings (qv).
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, five-window range. First floor has five six/six-horned sashes, two to left each with six further fixed panes added below, in splayed cyma moulded architraves with friezes and cornices, pediment to centre window, rising from stone sills, two to left lowered and with wrought iron balconettes. Second floor has five six/six-horned sashes in cyma-moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has four six/six-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, to centre six-panel door with flush, fielded and glazed panels in stone doorcase with cyma moulded architrave on flat surround with moulded brackets to moulded cornice, one step to pennant paved crossover. Basement has four windows, two to left blind, to right six/six-sashes, in plain reveals with splayed lintels with stone sills formed out of offset at top of plinth, three doorways and one full width opening to vaults, C20 area steps. One triple, one double and one single dormer with plate glass sashes. Timber bressumer to right and stone band course throughout over ground floor, bracketed eaves cornice and coped parapet continuous with No. 1 Fountain Buildings (qv). The change in masonry to ground floor left suggests reinstatement after removal of shopfront. Rear elevation not visible.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped and formerly scrolled heads on limestone bases.
HISTORY: this group of double-fronted houses were built by William Philips and others and incorporated an earlier house within their midst.
SOURCES:(Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980: 138-40;

Listing NGR: ST7499665246

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26689033

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)