Sydney Parade

A row of nine terrace houses located on a sloping site overlooking the Kennet and Avon Canal, built around 1820. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar, mostly painted, with double-pitched roofs of varying materials and moulded stacks to the party walls. They have double-depth plans.

The exterior is characterised by two storeys and lower ground floors, with each house originally featuring a two-window front. A continuous coped parapet runs along the top, with a first-floor sill band and a ground-floor platband. The façade features banded rustication with radial voussoirs and dropped keystones, as well as recessed flat-arched panels framing the ground floor openings. A plinth runs along the base. Originally, the houses had six/six-pane sash windows, five-panel doors with trellis glazing to the top panels and lozenge panels to blocked overlights. Some of the houses on the right have small circular windows to the right of the doors. Nos. 34-38 have six-panel doors and taller overlights, but are otherwise similar. Painted ashlar is evident, with the name "SYDNEY PARADE" inscribed on the platband. No. 30, at the north end of the row, features balconettes to the windows and a plain panel above the door. No. 31 is similar. No. 32 has plate glass sash windows and late 19th-century balconettes to the right-hand range, and a cast iron wreath knocker on the door. No. 33 features splayed reveals, balconettes to the right, and a plain panel above the door. No. 34 has balconettes and a plain panel above the door. No. 35 has balconettes and a six-panel door with glazing to the top and a taller lozenge to the overlight. No. 36 is similar to No. 35. No. 37 has late 19th-century balconettes, a six-panel door, and 20th-century glazing to a semi-elliptical topped overlight. No. 38 has a five-panel door with glazing to the top.

The interior of the houses was not inspected for the listing, though No. 37 was recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust's Interiors Survey in 1990. This survey noted the presence of a cantilevered stone staircase with a mahogany handrail, alcoves or cupboards flanking replica chimneypieces in the ground floor rooms, elaborate plasterwork to ground floor ceilings, and six-panel doors. Designs for these houses, then numbered 17-25 Sydney Buildings, were submitted to the Bathwick Estate Office in 1820.