5 And 6, Stall Street

Nos. 5 and 6 Stall Street are shops with accommodation above, built around 1805 by an unknown architect. They are constructed from limestone ashlar, with the first floor painted, and the roof is not visible from the street. The buildings are a pair of three-storey houses with a full attic, located on a corner site. The first and second floors facing Stall Street are framed by giant Doric pilasters and a cornice. Each house has two windows facing Stall Street, with No. 5 featuring a single window on a curved inset corner and two additional windows facing York Street, one of which is blind with painted glazing bars. The ground floor of No. 5 has a late 20th-century plate glass shopfront, while No. 6 has an early 20th-century shopfront. The windows are six-over-six sashes in plain reveals, curved at the corner, except for the attic, which has three-over-three sashes. The third floor features a cornice and parapet.

The buildings mark the northern end of a once balanced terrace that extended from York Street to Abbeygate Street, although many alterations have made the original design difficult to appreciate. The widening of Stall Street was part of the Bath Improvement Act of 1789, with plans by Thomas Baldwin, and John Palmer, the City Architect, is noted for preparing plans to set back the frontages in Stall Street in 1797. The design for this row, dated 1805 but unsigned, is preserved in the Bath Reference Library. York Street was formed in 1806, coinciding with the construction of this terrace, which is part of the Neoclassical remodelling of the city center but sits on a site with a much longer history of development.