Description

ALFRED STREET
(North side)
Nos.16-19(Consec)
12/06/50

GV II

Terrace of four houses. 1773-1775. Altered c1930.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched hipped slate mansard roofs with dormers and moulded stacks to coped party walls.
PLAN: Double depth.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attics and basements; three-window fronts, apart from No.17, a public house which is six-windows wide. Continuous coped parapet, modillion cornice, ground floor platband and plinth; splayed reveals; moulded architraves to upper floor windows; cornices and bracketed lowered sills to first floor windows; horned plate glass sash windows; set back six-panel doors with moulded architraves and cornices on consoles to the right of Nos.16, 18 and 19. C19 style shopfronts, c1930, to Nos.16 and 17.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
HISTORY: A part of the Oxford Row (qv) development by Thomas Warr Atwood but with elevations by John Wood the Younger, and thus forming a notable group with the westerly neighbour, the Assembly Rooms. The plans were approved with the ground building leases dated 2 March 1773 for this site, the former `Hand and Flower¿ ground. The leases for all 4 houses are dated 27 September 1775.
SOURCES: Walter Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (2nd ed. 1980), 156.

Listing NGR: ST7492565296

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673253

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings