Description

ST JAMES'S STREET
656-1/30/1556 (West side)

Nos.5 AND 6

(Formerly Listed as:
ST JAMES'S STREET Nos 1-9 (consec)
& No.10 (St James's Wine Vaults Public House))
12/06/50

GV II

Two houses, now shop with accommodation over. c1790-1793 with C19 and C20 alterations. By John Palmer.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front and rear, parapeted mansard roofs with concrete tile to upper slopes, artificial slate to lower, each has coped party wall to right, to left with truncated ashlar stacks.
PLAN: Two houses now knocked through to form single shop on ground floor, with rear elevations to St James's Place.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, single bay three-window range. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes, narrower to left and right, in splayed reveals to each house, second floor has three similar windows with continuous stone sills, to right (No.5) in plain reveals, to each house. Ground floor has two mid/late C19 timber shopfronts, to left (No.6) three-light plate glass window with V-section mullions with segmental arched heads to lights with carved spandrels, timber sill, C20 tiles to stall riser, disused shop door to left, glazed with flush panel below, has overlight with segmental head to match window, door to upper floors to far left has four moulded and single glazed upper panel with plate glass overlight, all within surround with four panelled pilasters flanking shop door and to far left and right, carved console brackets flanking entablature, modillion cornice. Shopfront to right (No.5) has two plate glass windows with segmental heads with carved spandrels similar to shopfront adjoining with moulded timber sills with C20 tiles to stall riser, windows flanking glazed door with flush lower panel, four panelled pilaster strips flanking door and to left and right support entablature with moulded cornice with pendentive decoration. Each house has triple dormer with plate glass sashes. Weathered sill band to first floor windows continuous across both houses and with No.4 St James's Street (qv) moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet continuous across both houses and with No.4 St James's Street. Rear elevations each retain early glazing-bar sashes to staircase, to No.5 with wrought iron balconette to first half landing, C20 sashes in altered openings to rooms, panelled doors. Grating in pavement to vaults and opening to basement to rear of No.6, similar opening with glass bricks to No.5.
INTERIORS: Not inspected, No.6 noted as having stick baluster dog-leg staircase. Nos. 5-6 were united and converted into flats in 1971.
HISTORY: Part of the incomplete St James's Square development on land leased by Fielder, King, Hewlett and Broom from Sir Peter Rivers Gay 25 March 1790, St James's Street forms one of the four diagonal approaches to St James's Square which together exemplify the application of Picturesque principles to town planning.
SOURCES: Bath City Archives, MAP PP 2-3; 'Abstract of title of Sir J F Rivers ... to property sold 1856': DEED PKT 2379 & MAPS; Graham Finch, Shopfront Record (Bath City Council 1992); Bath City Council planning files.

Listing NGR: ST7451365555

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673895

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