Description

656-1/30/1387

RIVERS STREET (North side)
No.13 and attached railings

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

12/06/50

GV
II
House, now flats. 1775-1780. Part of the Rivers Street development by John Wood the Younger.

MATERIALS: limestone ashlar to front, rubble to basement, ashlar and rubble to rear, double pile roof, artificial slate parapeted mansard to front, concrete tile built up to full third floor to rear, coped party wall to right with two ashlar stacks.

EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and basement. First floor has three grouped plate glass horned sashes, narrower to left and right, in splayed reveals with stone sills and wrought iron balconette; second floor has three similar sashes without balconette; ground floor has to right eight/eight-sash in splayed reveal with timber lintel with stone sill with wrought iron balconette, to left six-panel door with flush beaded, fielded and glazed panels in pedimented Doric doorcase, pennant paved crossover flush with pavement.

Basement has two plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals with continuous stone sill, C20 window in place of door under crossover, no area steps. Double dormer with four/four-sashes. Timber bressumer and stone band course over ground floor, modillion cornice and coped parapet.

Rear elevation (partially visible) has plate glass and glazing bar sashes, ashlar extension off staircase up to second half-landing with glazing bar sash with coloured glass borders to second half-landing, mansard rebuilt in ashlar full third floor.

INTERIOR: Not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought iron railings with shaped heads on painted limestone bases.

HISTORY: 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.

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

Listing NGR: ST7470765466

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26896249

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