3 And 3A, Green Street

3 and 3A Green Street is a house in a row with shops, dating from around 1716, with 19th and 20th-century alterations and additions. The building is constructed of dressed squared stone and has a concrete tile roof. It is set back from the street and features early 20th-century display fronts that cover most of the ground floor, except for a doorway and a small set-back bay to the right leading to No. 3A.

The building has three storeys, with deep sash windows framed in bolection mould architraves. The top floor includes three gabled sections, each with original eighteen-pane windows and floating cornice hoods. The first floor has five closely spaced plain sashes beneath a full-width, worn moulded cornice. The ground floor features a 20th-century glass door in a bolection mould architrave, with a painted-in transom light beneath a fine shell hood supported by brackets and a pulvinated frieze. The flanking display fronts have quadrant glazing and pilasters, which are later than a photograph taken by Green in the early 20th century. Lead downpipes and hopper heads are positioned between the gables, which, along with the ends, have saddleback copings. There are rebuilt ashlar stacks at each end.

The interior has not been inspected, but it is currently in retail use and appears to have undergone considerable alteration. An inspection by Bath Council in 1989 noted that most of the stone fireplaces remain intact, including some Regency fireplaces. The street was laid out in 1715 on the site of a bowling green, and this building is an important early survivor, representing one of the earliest 18th-century houses in Bath, still using the Cotswold vernacular format with gables facing the street.