No.2 And Attached Railings, Vaults And Pavement

This is a terrace house, dating from approximately 1770 to 1776, with alterations made in the 19th century. The front is constructed of limestone ashlar, painted to the ground floor and basement, with rubble below the basement windows. The rear is of rubble and render. It has a parapeted mansard roof covered with artificial slate to the front and Welsh slate to the rear, with two ashlar stacks rising from the party wall to the right.

The house is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a single bay, three-window facade. The first floor features a Venetian window with plate glass, horned sashes within splayed reveals, a lowered stone sill, and a large wrought iron balconette supported on scrolled iron brackets. The second floor has three grouped plate glass sashes with horns, narrower on either side, in plain reveals with splayed jambs and a continuous stone sill. The ground floor has paired plate glass sashes, and an entrance door with flush and fielded panels, a cast iron knocker and plate glass overlight in a round-headed opening with an ovolo moulded architrave. A cement-covered crossover, flush with the pavement, has a pair of 19th-century cast iron footscrapers. The basement has six-pane sashes, a plank door within a projecting screen, a panelled door and fixed light to the vaults, and a suspended tank above an open area. A double dormer supports plate glass sashes.

Architectural details include a band course over the ground floor, a sill band to the first floor, a bracketed eaves cornice, and a coped parapet, which are continuous with numbers 1, 3 and 4 Montpelier. The rear elevation, partially visible, has glazing bar sashes and a rendered full-height extension off the staircase, throughout.

The interior, surveyed by the Bath Preservation Trust in 1993, retains original features such as brass and black ceramic bell pulls, a varnished cupboard flanking the fireplace, a large cupboard in the study with original hinges (though the top set appear to be later), and flagged-stone floors in the basement. Original features also include a bread oven, a range with a Bath dresser, large cupboards, marble fireplaces, and doors and windows/shutters.

Attached to the property are wrought iron railings with shaped heads on limestone bases. The vaults beneath carry a raised pennant pavement with a simple wrought iron railing to the front edge, and include a small opening with a plank door to the roadway.