The Porter Butt Public House

YORK PLACE 656-1/32/1928 (South side) The Porter Butt Public House

(Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (South side) The Porter Butt Public House. Nos.5 and 6 York Place) 05/08/75

GV II

Public house stepped forward from Nos.5 and 6 York Place (qv). c1800, later extended post-1830 (OS). MATERIALS: Painted limestone ashlar, slate roof hipped to right of front range with tall moulded stacks to returns. PLAN: Three unit plan with long rear range including first floor assembly room, and small half courtyard behind front range. EXTERIOR: Two storeys and cellar, symmetrical three window front range. Coped parapet with ball finials over quoins and swept up to point over central window with carved stone barrel finial, cornice, ground floor platband and plinth. Late C19 plate glass sash windows, those to ground floor with chamfered arrises. Six panel door, now on sliding rail. INTERIOR: Some joinery (casements, shutters) remains in situ as does the staircase to rear; otherwise altered. Large stone fireplace with range to rear. Altered. HISTORY: The Porter Butt public house appears first in the Bath Directory in 1800. Porter was a popular, richly malted, variety of Georgian beer. SOURCES: Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England, Georgian Bath Historical Map (1989); J. Orbach, Card Index of Bath Architects and Streets (1978).

Listing NGR: ST7558165913