27-35 AND 35A, BATHWICK STREET

Terrace of ten shops on a site that tapers to the rear, located on the south side of Bathwick Street. Built in the early 19th century with alterations by Gill and Morris around 1902, and further 20th-century modifications.

The buildings are constructed in limestone ashlar with slate mansard roofs featuring paired dormers and moulded chimneys stacks rising to coped party walls. Nos. 30-35 share a continuous roof line. The terrace is three storeys high with coped parapets, cornices with lintel friezes, second and first floor sill bands, and plate glass sash windows throughout.

No. 27 is a two-window frontage with a hipped roof that dies into the higher right return of No. 12 Sydney Place. A timber bressummer spans the facade below the platband. The left side has a six-panel door with overlight; the right features a mid-19th-century shop window with cornice, fascia, panelled pilasters and moulded sill. The three-light plate glass window is 20th-century work.

No. 28 has splayed reveals to the upper windows. Nos. 28 and 29 form one property with an altered stepped-forward shop of around 1902 by Gill and Morris, featuring a dentil cornice and fascia stepped slightly forward at the centre and left. Two central double doors and a four-panel door to the right both have overlights and are flanked by panelled pilasters with circular panels. A similar pilaster appears to the left.

No. 30 is one window wide with first-floor balconettes. A shop of around 1860 has an ornamental foliate cornice and fascia. A wide canted bay at the centre carries moulded colonnettes and sill to plate glass panes. A four-panel door to the left features semicircular arches to the upper panels and tops and bases of four panes in the overlight. A half-glazed door to the right has a similar overlight. The facade is flanked by panelled pilasters supporting large moulded consoles.

No. 31 is two windows wide with a timber bressummer below the platband. A shop of around 1900 to the left is similar to Nos. 28 and 29, with three plate glass panes and pilasters flanking a half-glazed door with overlight to the right. A six-panel door with two-pane overlight stands to the far right.

No. 32, The Barley Mow public house, is three windows wide. The timber bressummer of No. 31 continues over a carriageway to the mews to the left with one window above. The mid-19th-century ashlar ground floor is stepped forward and canted back to the left near the carriageway. A coped parapet and cornice feature five Tuscan pilasters articulating moulded archivolts to three semicircular arched windows and double half-glazed three-panel doors to the canted left-hand range with margin panes to the fanlight. A three-storey lean-to wing to the rear has horizontal glazing bars to paired second-floor windows and one six-over-six pane sash window to the first floor. A single-storey rear range contains two six-over-six pane sash windows and a blocked door to the left.

Nos. 33A-34A present a five-window wide front with blind windows to the sides and centre. A shop of around 1900 features a dentil cornice and fascia with panelled pilasters bearing circular central panels. These flank a 19th-century door to the right with leaded overlight, a 19th-century door to the left with tall plain overlight, and paired shop doors at the centre.

No. 35, at the corner of Daniel Street, is two windows wide with a similar shop front also of around 1900. A two-storey gabled wing stands to the rear.

No. 35A is a late 19th-century single-storey shop that continues the details of the painted timber shop front to the left in limestone ashlar. A three-window block curves widely into Daniel Street with plinth and high sills to 20th-century windows under a dentil cornice. A further block of painted ashlar displays segmental arches and keystones to windows and door.