2-7 And 7A, Princes Buildings

This is a terrace of six houses, with a later rear wing and commercial premises, built between 1764 and 1765. The development was a speculative venture by Prince Hoare, a leading sculptor. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar with double-pitched slate roofs, dormers, and moulded stacks to the party walls (truncated at Nos. 2 and 3).

The houses are arranged with a three-window range, three storeys, attics, and basements. A continuous coped parapet, modillion cornice, and ground floor platband run along the front. The second-floor windows have moulded, eared architraves, while the first-floor windows have moulded architraves, cornices, and, above the doors, pediments. Original six/six-pane sash windows remain in some of the houses, though many have been altered; some feature horns, splayed reveals, and lowered sills.

No. 2 has splayed reveals to the upper floors' sash windows, a cornice, and a lowered sill to the first floor, alongside a 20th-century shop front. No. 3 has splayed architraves and a pediment over the right-hand first-floor window, also with a six-panel door and a restored mid/late 19th-century shop front. No. 4 retains the original first-floor sill level and cornices, and features horned plate glass sash windows. A mid-19th century projecting shop front presents a modillion cornice, three semi-circular arches with plate glass shop windows, ornate spandrels, and pilasters. The left return of this shop retains original shutters. No. 5 has plate glass sash windows with lowered sills and balconettes to the first floor and a restored mid/late 19th-century shop front. No. 6 features a Victorian-style shop front from 1992, and six/six-pane sash windows to the upper floors. No. 7 incorporates an 1883 shop front by T.B. Silcock, undergoing restoration, with segmental heads to plate glass shop windows and leaded cathedral glass overlights. The left return of No. 7 includes a triple-depth section with three gable ends and various windows. A three-storey rear wing (No. 7A), dating to around 1880, has a tripartite window to the second floor and a Venetian window to the rear of the first floor, alongside a shop front from the same period.

The interior of the buildings has not been inspected. The property was once occupied as an office by Mowbray A. Green, an architect and historian of Bath, in 1906.