Grosvenor House

End terrace house on the south side of Grosvenor Place, built around 1833 with substantial late 19th-century additions. Formerly listed under the address London Road.

The house is constructed in limestone ashlar with a slate roof featuring two axial stacks to the rear and one to the left of the door. It follows a three-unit plan.

The exterior presents two storeys with a large late 19th-century attic and semi-basement across a five-window range. A balustraded parapet, returned to the north and south elevations, is decorated with urns at corner piers and flanks a central segmentally curved full-height bow. The bow features a cornice and frieze. The ground floor displays a platband over banded rustication. Windows are mostly six-pane over six-pane sashes, except at the centre of the bow where the flanking sashes are six-pane over six-pane and those within the bow are eight-pane over eight-pane. The original front door is marked by paired pilasters and a semicircular arch, now largely obscured by a late 19th-century square-plan porch with a heavy balustraded parapet, clasping pilasters, moulded architrave with a large keystone, and a four-panel door.

The north elevation facing London Road features a shallow first-floor rectangular bay with cornice, blocking course, clasping pilasters, and panelled aprons. The south elevation at the rear has a two-window range. The parapet balustrades have been removed between piers on the south side. The first floor retains a bay similar to that at the front, positioned above a late 19th-century canted bay fitted with plate glass sashes, cornice, and moulded pilasters.

The interior, recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust in 1993, contains notable features of historical significance. A fine stone floor is inlaid with small black-coloured stone diamonds. The entrance porch now houses the front door, which was likely relocated from the space currently occupied by double doors with stained glass lights. Above these doors is a window with eight fanned glass lights. The hall ceiling features a deep relief frieze of ram's skulls with ribbons hanging from the horns linked by swags of fruit.

The stone staircase is framed by two round marble columns and two rectangular columns sourced from the altar piece of Bath Abbey. These columns are pale grey marble with painted pedestals. The lintels above two six-panelled doors on either side of the hall are sections of the frieze from the same abbey altar piece. A semi-circular arch spans above the stairway, with two further columns positioned either side of the doorway. The staircase itself has plain iron balusters with wooden decorated newels and a mahogany handrail. A statue stands in a niche at the top of the stairs.

The dining room is fitted with a Taurus picture rail featuring a moulded Taurus edge around both alcoves beside the fireplace. A service hatch for a dumb waiter, still in working order, and a mahogany butler's shelf are also present.

The hall contains part of Samuel Tufnell's altar piece originally given to Bath Abbey by General Wade in 1725. It was removed from the abbey during the 1833 restoration, and the marble was purchased by Thomas Shew, a collector and art dealer, for his house when Grosvenor Villa was being built. Mowbray Green noted that the terrace remained unfinished in 1819, with the 1833 Bath Directory listing the final number as 41. Grosvenor Villa is documented in a conveyance dated 30 September 1837 as being transferred to T. Shew. It appears certain that Grosvenor Lodge and Grosvenor Villa were constructed simultaneously. Thomas Shew, an artist of some repute, is recorded as living at 41 Grosvenor Place in 1826 and at Grosvenor Lodge in 1837, suggesting he owned both houses. He apparently overextended himself financially and died by suicide in 1839. Shew built the suspension bridge at the end of Grosvenor Bridge Road.

Attached to the left of the building is a rough ashlar wall approximately 2 metres high.