Description

BRIDGE STREET
(North side)

Nos.2-7 (Consec)
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGE STREET (North side)
Nos 1-6 (consec), No.7, Nos 8 and 9)
12/06/50

GV II

Shops with accommodation over. c1775, with late C19 and C20 alterations.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs.
PLAN: Double depth, some with rear extensions.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attics and cellars, three window fronts, stepped down the hill in pairs. Ground floor shopfronts, No.2 is 1922, by A.J. Taylor; No.3 is c1923; No.4 is c1923, by W.A. Williams; No.5 is late C19 or early C20; No.6 is mid C20 one, and No.7 has good early C19 shopfront of three bays with central door and entrance to house above to right. Shopfront has fluted Corinthian half columns, stallrisers, six panelled door, plate glass windows, single pane. Six panel door to right, rectangular light over with margin glazing. All windows have architraves, those to first floor with cornice heads. Second floor of No.3 and first floor of Nos 4 and 5 have six/six sashes, all others are late C19 plain plate glass sashes, except No.2, which has cut off first floor windows and two/two second floor sashes. Cornice, parapet, mansard roof, each house has a paired flat topped dormer, six/six sashes to No.3 only, stone stacks, all with pots.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Nos 5, 6 and 7 can be seen in Thomas Malton's View of Pulteney Bridge from Spring Gardens, 1788. Bridge Street was cut through from the High Street following the Council's approval of the construction of Pulteney Bridge (qv) in 1769. Nos 1-6 (consec) were listed on 11th August 1972.
SOURCES: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1948), 65; G. Finch, Shopfront Record, Bath City Council (1992).

Listing NGR: ST7512864932

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673986

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