Description

WALCOT STREET
656-1/31/1810 (East side)
Nos.140, 142 AND 144
05/08/75

GV II

Row of three houses with shops on sloping site. c1785.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar painted to ground floor front and right return, rubblestone rear, roofs unseen with moulded stack to left.
PLAN: Double depth plans.
EXTERIOR: Four storeys including attic storey. Cornice and lintel frieze to parapet, second floor cornice and first floor sill band. Plate glass sash windows. No.140 has one window to Walcot Street, one to canted corner and two to right return. Shopfront early C19, but altered, has half glazed central door flanked by cantilevered bow windows under fascia and cornice, to corner is a late C19 half-glazed door and to right of right return similar four-panel door. Nos.142 and 144 (one altered early C19 shop with continuous narrow fascia), stepped slightly up with continuous parapet and cornices, symmetrical three-window front with central blind attic window, balconettes to two/two-pane sash windows to second floor and plate glass sashes to first floor, and central six-flush panel door glazed to top. No.142 has one-window range with shop window of two rows of four panes to right and half glazed door to left. Remains of painted advertisement survive across front of house, reading in part 'W.WHITE Gas Fitter Bell Hanger Workshops around the corner'. No.144 has two-window range with half glazed door to right and large raked hood over shop window of two rows of three panes to left.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
HISTORY: This site is shown as already developed on the 'New Plan of the City of Bath' of 1790.

Listing NGR: ST7512065553

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674563

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