27-33, WALCOT STREET

These are four terrace houses with shops, dating to approximately 1830. They are constructed with a limestone ashlar facade, rough ashlar to the left return, and slate roofs of varying pitches. The roofs have moulded stacks, some with hand-thrown chimney pots to the party walls and ends. The houses have double-depth plans.

The three-storey building has a seven-window range. A returned coped parapet and continuous stopped cornice are visible, along with six-pane sash windows to the upper floor. A sill band and alternating flat cornices and pediments feature above the first-floor windows. A bressumer runs behind the shop fascias.

Number 27, on the left, is a two-window range. It has a shop fascia spanning a former carriage entrance, now filled in, and a late 19th-century six-pane shop window to the left, both flanked by pilasters with moulded caps and consoles supporting a narrow cornice. A small, similar two-pane shop window without a fascia or cornice is present on the left return. The architraves and sills to the upper floors are painted.

Number 29 also has a two-window range and a more elaborate shopfront, likely from the later 19th century but possibly with earlier origins. It features a higher dentil cornice, heavier fluted consoles scrolled to the fascia, and a panelled shop window to the left with three rows of five small panes. A half-glazed door to the right is accompanied by a large two-pane overlight. A later 19th-century doorcase to the far right has a richly moulded architrave with a cyma moulded keystone, a six-panel door, and a blocked overlight.

Numbers 31 and 33 present a symmetrical three-window range to the upper floors, featuring balconettes to the first floor and a pediment over the central window. A tall central doorcase, leading to numbers 31A and 33A, is similar to that of Number 29, with four panels to the door and six panes to the overlight. Flanking shops, drawn in 1875, are symmetrically reversed, with six-pane shop windows to the outer ends and half-glazed doors with overlights towards the centre.

The interiors were not inspected and are largely altered on the ground floor. While the buildings appear late Georgian, this area of Walcot was already built up as shown on Johnson’s 1634 map of Bath.