No.2 And Attached Railings And Vaults

This is a four-storey and basement house, built around 1775, and later altered in the 20th century. It is located in Oxford Row, Bath, and is now used as flats. The house was likely designed by Thomas Warr Atwood, who obtained the land for development in 1773.

The front of the house is constructed from limestone ashlar, with rubble stonework visible behind basement windows. It has a double-pile, parapeted roof covered with artificial slate on the front, and a single long ashlar chimney stack shared with the adjacent building at No. 1 Oxford Row. The stack features some early clay pots. A staircase leads up to the front entrance.

The first floor has two nine-pane sash windows with splayed, ovolo moulded architraves, stone sills, and a frieze and cornice. The second floor has two six-pane sash windows in similar ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. The third floor has two six-pane sash windows in plain reveals with stone sills and simple iron guards. The ground floor has a six-pane sash window with a simple wrought iron balconette to the left, and a six-panel door with a flush, fielded section and a single glazed panel, set within a doorcase with moulded brackets and a cornice. A small single-pane window is to the right of the door. Two steps lead to a paved crossover featuring two large pennant slabs, with a former footscraper opening in the house wall. The basement has a 20th-century plate glass sash and a doorway leading to vaults, with accompanying area steps. A band course runs above the ground floor, and there is a modillion cornice over the second floor, along with a hollow eaves cornice and coped parapet. A lead hopperhead is located at the eaves on the right-hand side. The rear elevation is not visible.

The interior has not been inspected. Attached to the house are wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped heads on limestone bases.

The house represents a standard Palladian design typical of the 1770s and exemplifies the English Palladian tradition as applied to street architecture. Historical records indicate that Thomas Warr Atwood developed the houses on Council land in 1773.