Description

RIVERS STREET
656-1/30/1416 (South side)
12/06/50 No.43 and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as:
RIVERS STREET (South side)
Nos.38-47 (Consecutive))

GV II

House, now flats. 1770-1775.
Part of the Rivers Street development by John Wood the Younger.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble below basement windows, rubble to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh Slate to front and rear, coped party wall to right with two ashlar stacks with early clay pots.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three two/three-sashes in splayed ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices with lowered moulded stone sills on console brackets. Second floor has three six/six-sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has to right two two/two-sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills, to left six-panel door with fielded and glazed panels with cast iron knocker with one Pennant step in pedimented Doric doorcase painted, single step to Pennant paved crossover, with cast iron footscraper. Basement has two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, door under crossover recessed and not visible, pennant area steps with wrought iron handrail. Double dormer with six/six-sashes.
Band course over ground floor, modillion cornice and coped parapet. Lead downpipe attached to left shared with No.42 Rivers Street (qv). Rear elevation partially visible has three grouped four/four, six/six, four/four sashes to second floor, double dormer with plate glass sashes.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on 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. The strip of ground on which Nos 12-15 and 48-50 Rivers Street were constructed was probably never acquired by Wood. The sites of Nos. 12-15 were conveyed from the 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.
SOURCES: Building leases and rate books; Walter Ison, `The Georgian Buildings of Bath¿ (2nd ed. 1980), 233.

Listing NGR: ST7474665432

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673769

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)