5 And 6, York Place

YORK PLACE 656-1/32/1927 (South side) Nos.5 AND 6

(Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (South side) The Porter Butt Public House. Nos.5 and 6 York Place) 05/08/75

GV II

Pair of houses attached to rear (east) of York Villa and the Porter Butt public house on right (qv). Early C19. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, rubblestone to left return, double pitched slate roofs hipped to left with tall moulded stacks and hand-thrown chimney pots to party wall and right gable end. PLAN: Double depth plans. EXTERIOR: Two storeys with cellars, each house has two window front range. Continuous coped parapet, cornice and ground floor plat-band. To left of each house, semicircular arch over fanlight with radial glazing bars and six panel door, six/six pane sash windows, that over door of No.6 to left blind. INTERIORS: Not inspected. Some joinery (casements, shutters) remains in situ as does the staircase to rear. Large stone fireplace with range to rear. HISTORY: Modest examples of the late Georgian town house, these formed part of the arterial development that ran along London Road. They were conceived and built to form an integral unit with their easterly neighbour, the public house. SOURCES: Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England, Georgian Bath Historical Map (1989).

Listing NGR: ST7559065920