8-11, Walcot Buildings

The terrace at 8-11 Walcot Buildings comprises four houses with shops, dating to the late 18th century or early 19th century, and altered in the 20th century. The houses are constructed of painted limestone ashlar, with slate roofing to number 8, which has a hipped roof to the left side. The facades are low, displaying two windows per floor above the shop fronts. Cornices and coped parapets are present, with number 8 slightly taller and featuring a hipped roof; numbers 9-11 are unified under a continuous roofline. Number 8 has a large recessed panel between the upper windows and shares a single shop front with number 9, featuring plate glass sash windows over a 20th-century shop front. Number 10 has six-pane sash windows to the first floor and a mid/late 19th-century projecting shop front with fluted scroll consoles framing the fascia and a machicolated-style cornice. The shop window to the left is flanked by panelled pilasters and features two rows of three plate glass panes with semi-elliptical heads and sunk spandrels. A panelled soffit overhangs two recessed doors. The half-glazed shop door has a similar head to the windows, with one panel at the base and an overlight. The door furthest to the right has one glazed horizontal panel over two semicircular arched vertical panels. Number 11 features six-pane sash windows to the first floor, a plate glass shop window from 1888 with a moulded sill, panelled pilasters, a dentil cornice to the fascia, and a recessed half-glazed door with a moulded panel at the base and an overlight to the right. A raised and fielded six-panel door with a plain chamfered opening is located below a platband on the ground floor. The interior was not inspected. These houses interrupt the original terrace, formerly known as Albemarle Buildings, as shown on Harcourt Masters’s plan of Bath in 1793, and may have been built as a later, lower infill, or the shells of the original buildings might have been reduced due to the financial crisis of 1793-94.