The Ale House

YORK STREET 656-1/41/1930 (South side) No.1 The Ale House

(Formerly Listed as: YORK STREET (South side) No.1 York Street Wine Vaults) 11/08/72

GV II

Public house. c1816, with later alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, now painted, Welsh slate roof. PLAN: Corner site with single depth plan to two fronts. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and cellar. Three bays to Terrace Walk, four to York Street, canted corner. Platband at first floor level. Left hand bay to Terrace Walk is blind, but has window recesses, otherwise plate glass windows to ground floor and six/six sashes above. At some period this building shared large multi-paned shop window with No.2 Terrace Walk. Cornice, parapet, mansard roof with two flat topped casement dormers. Canted corner has arch headed doorway to ground floor. York Street elevation has ground floor with small late C19 two light shop window, plain sash and two plain doorways. Above are four six/six sashes and three dormers as before. INTERIOR: Largely late C19, with fielded counter front, ornate behind bar shelving, tiled fireplace surround to ground floor bar; lower part of staircase at least replaced. Basement now occupied by the Cellar Bar: extensive barrel vaults remain in situ. Rest not inspected. HISTORY: This building, together with No.3 Terrace Walk (qv), stands on the site of Lindsey's Rooms, designed by John Wood the Elder, opened in 1730 and demolished in 1816. They form a matched entry to York Street which was cut through at that time. SOURCES: J. Orbach, Card Index of Bath Architects and Streets (1978); The Bath Chronicle: Images of Bath (1994), 19.

Listing NGR: ST7518464717