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Latitude: 51.387 / 51°23'13"N
Longitude: -2.3626 / 2°21'45"W
OS Eastings: 374862
OS Northings: 165393
OS Grid: ST748653
Mapcode National: GBR 0Q9.X2G
Mapcode Global: VH96M.0DBK
Plus Code: 9C3V9JPP+RX
Entry Name: No. 14 and Attached Railings
Listing Date: 12 June 1950
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1394812
English Heritage Legacy ID: 510219
ID on this website: 101394812
Location: Walcot, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA1
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bath
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Building
RUSSELL STREET
656-1/30/1456 (East side)
No.14 and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
RUSSELL STREET
Nos.1-18 (Consec))
12/06/50
GV II
House, now flats. c1771-1773. Architect: John Wood the Younger.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front and rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, artificial slate to front and rear, with coped party wall with two ashlar stacks with some early clay pots to right.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes in splayed ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices with lowered moulded stone sills on cut down console brackets with wrought iron balconettes, C19 timber blind boxes to each window. Second floor has three plate glass horned sashes in splayed ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has, to right, two plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills with C19 timber blind box to each window; to left, a six-panel door with flush beaded and glazed panels with limestone and Pennant step in cyma moulded architrave with flat surround with heavy console brackets supporting projecting moulded cornice forming hood over, two steps to Pennant paved crossover with wrought iron footscraper. Basement has one six/six-sash in plain reveal with stone sill to right, to centre six-panel door with flush beaded and glazed panels with six-pane overlight in plain reveal, to left plate glass sash in plain reveal with stone sill, small C20 window in Render infilling under crossover, area steps rebuilt in concrete blockwork with Pennant tread with wrought iron handrail. One double and one single dormer with plate glass sashes. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Lead hopperhead and downpipe attached to left shared with No.13 Russell Street (qv). Rear elevation partially visible has plate glass sashes to staircase, two-light casements to dormers.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings with lifting section and gate with shaped heads on painted bases.
HISTORY: Russell Street developed by John Wood in conjunction with Assembly Rooms and east end of Rivers Street on part of Holdstock's Garden or Russell's Close bought by Wood and Andrew Sproule, his trustee, from Thomas and Daniel Omer 30th December 1768.
SOURCES: Bath City Record Office, Deed Packet: 2382A 15 RUSSELL ST; T. Thorp T, `Plan of the Parish of Walcot ... Surveyed for - Gay Esq 1740'; Walter Ison, `The Georgian Buildings of Bath' ((2nd ed. 1980), 156.
Listing NGR: ST7486265393
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