1-11, BATH STREET

Nos. 1-11 Bath Street comprise an informally composed row of six cottages, built between 1903 and 1932, designed by John Douglas who also acted as the owner. They are constructed from buff-coloured squared snecked rubble sandstone with grey-green small-slate roofs. The buildings are two storeys high, with some parts incorporating steep-pitched roofs. The main ridge runs parallel to the front. The arrangement features a front gable, a dormer gable, a projecting turret, a paired turret, and a corner turret. At ground floor, the turrets serve as porches. Above, corbelling supports conical turret roofs. A boarded yard door is located in a link wall with No. 142 Foregate Street, with a balustrade parapet above it. The cottage doors have leaded glazed upper panels, set within segmental-arched openings. Small paved forecourts are edged with simple wrought-iron railings, and the wrought-iron door furniture is notable. There are two canted bay windows with hip roofs. Windows are stone mullioned, with leaded glazing. The turret in the right-hand corner, belonging to No. 11, features a cartouche above an ogee door lintel, dated 1903. Leaded casements are found in varied openings to the first floor. Large red-brick chimneys are visible, and the rear of the buildings is brick. The interiors remain uninspected, but appear to contain features of interest. Together with No. 142 Foregate Street and No. 13 Bath Street, these cottages form a distinguished streetscape. They represent a good example of Douglas’s Germanic style on a small scale.