3 And 3A, Green Street

GREEN STREET (North side) Nos.3 AND 3A 12/06/50

GV II

House in row, with shops. c1716 with C19 and C20 alterations and additions. MATERIALS: Dressed squared stone, concrete tile roof. PLAN: House set back from street, and fronted by early C20 display fronts which cover most of ground floor apart from doorway, small set back bay to right entry to No.3A. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, windows all deep sashes in bolection mould architraves, top floor has three face gables, each with original eighteen-pane, and with floating cornice hoods, and first floor has five close spaced plain sashes, under full width worn moulded cornice. Ground floor C20 glass door in bolection mould architrave and painted-in transom light under very fine shell hood on brackets and pulvinated frieze, flanking display fronts have quadrant glazing and pilasters, later than Green's photograph of early C20. Lead downpipes and hopperheads between gables which, like ends, have saddleback copings. Rebuilt ashlar stack at each end. INTERIOR: Not inspected; now in retail use they appear to have undergone considerable alteration. Inspected by Bath Council in 1989, most of the stone fireplaces intact with some Regency fireplaces. HISTORY: The street was laid out in 1715 on the site of a bowling green, to a very narrow width; this building is an important early survivor, one of earliest C18 houses in Bath, still using the Cotswold vernacular format with gables to street. Green (op cit) has a reconstruction drawing of the facade (page 20). SOURCES: (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: London: 1948-: 118; Green M: The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bath: Bath: 1904-: 20; PL IX; The Bath Chronicle: Images of Bath: Derby: 1994-: 34; Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992-).

Listing NGR: ST7498564993