72-84, WALCOT STREET

Six irregular terrace houses with single-storey projecting shopfronts added. The houses date from around 1800, though the Ordnance Survey indicates they may predate 1776. The shopfronts were added in the mid to late 19th century and underwent further alterations in the 20th century.

The buildings are constructed in painted limestone ashlar with double pitched pantile roofs topped by moulded stacks to some party walls and end walls. The houses follow a double-depth plan layout.

The exteriors are three storeys high with either one or two-window fronts. All feature coped parapets and stopped cornices. No. 72, to the right, has a stopped cornice and wide plate glass sash windows to the upper floors, probably formerly eight-over-eight-pane sashes. The second floor windows are from the 20th century, while the first floor retains a 19th-century horned two-over-two-pane sash. Its mid-19th-century projecting shopfront features a 20th-century half-glazed door and overlight to the left. The centre displays a set-back half-glazed shop door beneath an elaborate pediment-type panel with pierced cast iron strip above and a blocked overlight. Pendants flank the cornice and fascia. The shop windows have reeded uprights with chamfered arises.

Nos. 74 and 76 share a large stack at the party wall, topped with hand-thrown chimney pots. Both have a continuous parapet and coved cornice, a moulded first-floor string course, one window to each second floor, and paired windows to the first floors with splayed reveals. No. 74 retains 20th-century windows within the splayed reveals, while No. 76 has two windows to each upper floor—two-over-two-pane sash windows with those on the first floor featuring horizontal glazing bars. The mid-19th-century shopfront to No. 74 has small panes, panelled pilasters, and a door to the right. No. 76's mid-19th-century shop displays a modillion cornice with fluted consoles, panelled pilasters, and moulded colonnettes flanking plate glass shop windows with curved upper corners and ornamented spandrels. These spandrels date from 1908 and were designed by A.G. Whitehouse.

No. 78 has splayed reveals to its plate glass sash windows and a coved string course between the upper floors. Its circa 1900 shop features cast iron cresting above the cornice to the fascia, flanked by gabled consoles over panelled pilasters. The plate glass shop windows have turned colonnettes and ornamented spandrels to curved upper corners, with cast iron fretted strips above. The half-glazed central shop door and overlight are set back.

No. 80, previously listed as dating from 1736, is a one-window front with wide two-over-two-pane sash windows, probably formerly eight-over-eight-pane sashes. A second-floor sill string course continues across No. 82. The mid-19th-century shopfront has a dentil cornice with fluted consoles adorned with garlands, positioned above panelled pilasters. A six-panel door and overlight sit to the left, with a later shop window to the right. A continuous ornamented lintel runs above. The set-back half-glazed central door features a small-tiled polychromatic threshold.

No. 82, to the left, has upper floors similar to No. 80 but with a lower cornice. Its mid-19th-century shopfront is less elaborate and includes a window from 1905. A black-and-white-tiled threshold leads to the central set-back half-glazed door, with a six-panel door and narrow overlight to the right.

The interiors were not inspected. Information sourced from Graham Finch's Bath City Council Shopfront Record of 1992.