No. 10 With Forecourt

No. 10, with its forecourt, is a house dating from the middle to late 18th century. It is now commercial premises. The building was constructed alongside No. 9 and features a plain frontage to Trim Street, with a narrower front leading to Upper Borough Walls.

The exterior is limestone ashlar with a slate roof. The house is four storeys high, with an attic and a lower ground floor. It has sash windows throughout. The front facing Trim Street has a paired sash dormer in a 20th-century mansard roof. The upper two floors have tripartite eight-over-twelve-over-eight pane sashes. At the first floor there's a Palladian window, the centre light featuring an arch and radial bars within a raised surround. This surround has a cornice serving as an archivolt over the centre light and a sill supported by four brackets. The ground floor has a tall twelve-pane sash in a raised surround, with a sill on brackets, to the left of a six-panel door. The door is topped by a deep transom light and accessed by steps leading to a Doric doorcase with an open pediment and columns on high pedestals. A cornice moulding runs across the frontage, with a platband above, a modillion cornice above the second floor, a thin cavetto cornice, a blocking course, and a parapet that returns to the Trim Street front. Balustrade railings run along the parapet and roof. The rear elevation is plain, with twelve-pane sashes to three floors, and a paired twelve-pane sash at ground floor level. The lower ground floor has a four-pane sash, a blocked opening, and a pair of low-level grilles. The front elevation is set back from the street behind a small, stone-flagged courtyard raised above pavement level.

The interior, as recorded in the Bath Preservation Trust Survey of Interiors (1993), includes a seven-flight cantilevered staircase with mahogany handrails. The front room on the first floor retains a marble fireplace flanked by arches, panelled walls, a plaster modillion cornice with rosettes, and six-panel doors. Other rooms are plainer and have been adapted for office use. The building is now linked with No. 9. The street was laid out in 1707, and while built later, this property stands on land previously owned by George Trim, just outside the mediaeval walls. The street retains its flagged pavements and sett roadway.