1-7, GREAT PULTENEY STREET (See details for further address information)

This is a row of seven symmetrical terrace houses, numbered 1 to 7, located on the north side of Great Pulteney Street, and including numbers 4, 5, and 6 Laura Place, and numbers 36 and 37 Henrietta Street. They form part of a larger terrace of twenty houses and were built between 1789 and 1795. The design is attributed to Thomas Baldwin, with possible contributions from John Eveleigh.

The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with double-pitched mansard roofs covered in slate. The roofs feature paired dormers from the 20th century and moulded stacks on the party walls. The plan is a double depth, with rear additions. The exterior presents a seventeen-window range across three storeys with attics and basements, and sub-basements to the rear. A continuous modillion cornice and entablature are supported by a grand order of Corinthian columns rising from the ground floor cornice. The ground floor is rusticated with radial voussoirs to the flat-arched recesses, and a plinth. Most windows are six/six-pane sashes; the centre window on the first floor is flanked by narrow paired pilasters supporting a wide pediment with a triple festoon to the frieze. Similar pilasters frame windows in the outer ranges, creating a one:three:one:three:one:three:one design. The outer groups of three windows each feature a taller semicircular arched window on the first floor with radial glazing bars, a cornice on consoles, and double festoons to the frieze. Former doorways have been replaced with windows. A 20th-century, slightly projecting semicircular arched porch with a fanlight and half-glazed doors with wrought iron grilles now provides access. The left return fronting Henrietta Street is canted and pedimented with similar decorative features; blind windows are present on the right side, and pilasters are absent. The interiors remain uninspected.

Great Pulteney Street is a significant element of the late 18th-century development of the Bathwick estate. Laid out at an unusually generous width of 100 feet, it is considered one of the most impressive urban spaces in Britain. While Robert Adam initially prepared designs in 1782, Thomas Baldwin was responsible for the final design. Building progressed slowly due to the economic downturn of the mid-1790s. Number 6 was Thomas Baldwin's own residence from 1791 until his bankruptcy in 1794. The group of houses was later combined to form the Pulteney Hotel in 1904, with interior alterations by Silcock and Reay, evidenced by the "P & H" initials still present on the single entrance door grille. The Admiralty requisitioned the hotel in 1939, and it subsequently became an apartment building named Connaught Mansions; planning permission for 61 residential units was granted in 1971.