5 And 6, Stall Street

STALL STREET 656-1/41/1597 (East side) Nos.5 AND 6

(Formerly Listed as: STALL STREET Nos.5-11 (Consec)) 05/08/75

GV II

Shops with accommodation over. c1805. Architect unknown. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, painted on first floor, roof not visible from street. PLAN: Double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Pair of three-storey houses with full attic, on corner site. First and second floors facing Stall Street framed by giant Doric pilasters with cornice. Two windows to Stall Street (one to each number), single window curved inset corner to No.5, and two additional windows to No.5 facing York Street, the first of these blind with painted glazing bars. Late C20 plate glass shopfront to ground floor of No.5, early C20 one to No.6. Windows six/six-sashes in plain reveals, curved on corner, except attic, which has three/three sashes. Third (attic) floor with cornice and parapet. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: This is the northern termination of a once balanced terrace from York Street to Abbeygate Street, the bays of which were deployed two:seven:three:seven:two: the northern eleven most bays survive. The design for this is now difficult to appreciate due to alterations, and the redevelopment of Nos 12-15 at the south end. The widening of Stall Street was approved as a part of the Bath Improvement Act of 1789, with designs by Thomas Baldwin; and John Palmer, the City Architect is recorded in the Council Minutes (20th March 1797) as preparing plans for setting back the frontages in Stall Street, but the design for the present row, dated 1805 but unsigned, survives in the Bath Reference Library. York Street was formed in 1806, which also corresponds with the building of this terrace. Part of the Neoclassical remodelling of the City centre, but occupying a site with a much longer building history.

Listing NGR: ST7504764685