140, 142 AND 144, WALCOT STREET

A row of three houses with shops, dating from around 1785, situated on a sloping site. The front is limestone ashlar, painted to the ground floor, with rubble stone to the rear. The roofs are not visible, but feature a moulded stack on the left. The houses follow a double depth plan.

The exterior has four storeys, including an attic. A cornice and lintel frieze run along the top of the façade, with a second-floor cornice and a sill band to the first floor. Plate glass sash windows are present throughout. Number 140 has one window facing Walcot Street, one to a canted corner, and two to the right return. The early 19th-century shopfront has been altered, featuring a central half-glazed door flanked by cantilevered bow windows beneath a fascia and cornice. A late 19th-century half-glazed door is located at the corner, and a similar four-panel door with glazing is to the right of the right return.

Numbers 142 and 144 are stepped slightly upwards, sharing a continuous parapet and cornices. They have a symmetrical three-window front with a central blind attic window. Balconettes are above the two-over-two pane sash windows on the second floor, and plate glass sashes are on the first floor, with a central six-panel flush door glazed at the top. Number 142 has a one-window range, with a shop window of two rows of four panes to the right and a half-glazed door to the left. Fragments of a painted advertisement remain on the front of the house, reading ‘W.WHITE Gas Fitter Bell Hanger’. Number 144 has a two-window range, with a half-glazed door to the right and a large raked hood over the shop window, which consists of two rows of three panes.

The interiors have not been inspected. This site was already developed by 1790, as shown on the ‘New Plan of the City of Bath’.