Widcombe Hill House

Widcombe Hill House is a large detached house built in the mid to late 18th century, with extensions added in the early 19th and 20th centuries. The house is constructed from limestone ashlar or coursed rubble and features a slate roof.

The building has a compact, symmetrical design and is three storeys high with five windows, all of which are twelve-pane sash windows. The first floor windows have floating cornices, and there is a central Doric pediment portico that includes a triglyph frieze and a panelled door flanked by sash windows. The exterior is enhanced by a modillion cornice, a blocking course, and a parapet that sweeps up at the ends to square pedestals topped with urn finials. The roof is hipped to the left, with a coped gable on the right side that has a two-stage ashlar stack against a plain coursed rubble wall.

The right side of the house features an extended rendered angular bay range with twelve-pane sash windows set into sill bands on the first and second floors, along with a single-storey full-depth later addition that includes a full-height external stack on the main gable. The left side has blind lights on the original end wall with a parapet, and it extends to the left with a twelve-pane sash window above a pair of French casements that lead to a balcony railing, as well as a ground floor window. This section has a hipped return and two small stacks.

The interior has not been inspected. Originally situated in an isolated position on a commanding hillside, Widcombe Hill House was one of the earliest suburban villas built in this part of south-east Bath.