3 Rivers Street and attached railings

This is a three-storey terrace house on Rivers Street, originally constructed around 1775 by John Wood the Younger. It was largely destroyed by bombing in 1942 and subsequently rebuilt to its original design by Ernest Tew and Oliver.

The house is built of limestone ashlar, with a Welsh slate roof and a parapet to the front, incorporating two ashlar chimney stacks on the right party wall. The front elevation features a continuous stone sill with a balconette. The first floor has three grouped sash windows: six/six, nine/nine, and six/six panes, with horns. The second floor mirrors this arrangement, with four/four, six/six, and four/four panes. On the ground floor are two six/nine pane windows and a six-panel door set within a pedimented Doric doorcase with two steps leading to a pennant-paved crossover. The basement has two six/six pane windows and a four-panel door. A triple dormer with plate glass windows is present in the roof. A band course connects it to number 4 Rivers Street, with a modillion cornice and coped parapet also shared with numbers 1-4. The rear elevation has six/six pane windows. The interior has not been inspected.

Attached to the front are railings and a gate with shaped heads on limestone bases.

Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger, with construction occurring across several parcels of land acquired between 1766 and 1768, some on perpetual leasehold and some on 99-year leases. Various Bath builders contributed to the realization of Wood's designs. The writer Walter Savage Landor lived in the house between 1852 and 1864.