Description

656-1/30/1375

RIVERS STREET (North side)
Nos.1 and 1A and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as: RIVERS STREET (North side) Nos.1-15 (Consecutive))

12/06/50

GV
II
Corner end-of-terrace house, now flats. Originally c1775 by John Wood the Younger, rebuilt after 1942 bombing.

MATERIALS: limestone ashlar to front, left side and rear, Welsh slate parapeted mansard roof, hipped to left with coped party wall with ashlar stack to right.

EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and basement; two window front to Rivers Street with Doric doorcase; three-window return front to Upper Church Street with projecting semi-circular porch on Doric columns.

First floor has two paired nine/nine-sashes in plain reveals with continuous stone sill, second floor has two similar six/six-sashes. Ground floor has two similar six/six-sashes to right, six-panel door to left now part-glazed in pedimented Doric doorcase with two concrete steps to left. Double dormer with six/six horned sashes. Shallow plinth, band course over ground floor continuous with No.2 Rivers Street (qv), moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet continuous with Nos 2, 3 and 4 Rivers Street (qv).

Left side to Upper Church Street three storeys and attic, three-window range. First floor has three nine/nine-horned sashes, to left and right in plain reveals with stone sills, to centre with cyma moulded architrave and flat surround with console brackets supporting projecting moulded cornice over. Second floor has three six/six-horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills. Ground floor has similar sashes to left and right flanking six-panel door to 1A with overlight in plain reveal flanked by narrow two/two-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills within semicircular porch with two attached and two free-standing Doric columns. Three single dormers with six/six horned sashes. Shallow plinth, band course over ground floor and modillion cornice and coped parapet all continuous with front to Rivers Street.

Rear elevation in similar style.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached railings and gate with shaped heads on limestone bases around infilled former area.

HISTORY: This house was built and occupied by John Fielder. Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger on three parcels of land: Nos. 1-11 constructed in conjunction with Catharine Place on ground conveyed on perpetual leasehold from Sir Benet Garrard to Wood and Brock as his trustee 19/20 December 1766. Nos. 16-28 and 36-47 Rivers Street with areas behind Nos. 46 and 47 on ground conveyed from Rivers Estate (owned by Sir Peter Rivers Gay) to Wood 5 March 1768 for 99 years.
Nos. 28-35 Rivers Street were constructed in conjunction with Russell Street on ground bought by John Wood and Andrew Sproule as his trustee from Thomas and Daniel Omer 30 December 1768 on perpetual freehold rents.

Strip of ground on which Nos 12-15 and 48-50 Rivers Street constructed probably never acquired by Wood. Sites of Nos. 12-15 were conveyed from Rivers Estate to Thomas and James Beale on 30 December 1774 and 16 October 1776 on perpetual freehold rents. A number of different Bath builders were responsible for implementing Wood's overall design, re Ison. S of Bath' (2nd ed. 1980), 233.

This house was rebuilt in replica by Mowbray Green after its destruction by bombing 1942.

SOURCES: Building leases and rate books; Walter Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (2nd ed. 1980), 233.

Listing NGR: ST7462965490

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673699

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