6, Cambridge Place

CAMBRIDGE PLACE (North side) No.6 (Formerly Listed as: WIDCOMBE HILL (North side) Nos 4-6 (consec) Cambridge Place) 05/08/75

GV II

Detached villa. c1830. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: compact block with low pitched hipped roof, side entry to central transverse staircase. EXTERIOR: Two storeys and basement, three windows, sashes with margin lights all round, six-pane sash to first floor, and twelve-pane sash below, with raised surrounds and floating cornices to ground floor. Windows grouped centrally, and facade at each end slightly recessed for about 1m width, box eaves to brackets, and ashlar stack each side. Left return also three window, some of these blind, and a large square porch with Roman Doric pilasters and entablature, on panelled door to short flight of steps. Across front of house is terrace, with C20 rail. INTERIOR: Recorded by Bath Preservation Trust in the 1990¿s. The kitchen has the original pine dresser, floor to ceiling with turned supports for shelves. Stone steps down to cellar which has three rooms, one containing old stone wine racks and an inner room, with evidence of a lockable gate, to house the spirits store. The door to the garden is strengthened with iron strips on the panels and an iron security bar. HISTORY: The highest of a group of five villas here, set up from the street level, and very similar to Nos 4 and 5 (qv). SOURCES: Robert Bennett, `The Last of the Georgian Architects of Bath¿, Bath History IX (2002), 101.

Listing NGR: ST7569464162