13 And 14, George Street

GEORGE STREET (North side) Nos.13 AND 14 05/08/75

GV II

Two terraced houses, now shops. No. 13 mid-C18 , No. 14 late C18, altered late C19. EXTERIOR: No. 13, painted limestone ashlar, three-window range with coped parapet. Two plate glass sash windows to right and late C19 shopfront with door and overlight to centre and turned colonnettes between three plate glass panes under fascia and cornice to left. No. 14 to right, limestone ashlar to facade and right return, rough ashlar to left return. Double depth plan. Three storeys with attic and basement, symmetrical five-window range. Double depth slate mansard roof with stacks to returns, three dormers, coped parapet that rises over gable ends of returns, returned parapet, second and first floor sill bands and ground floor platband, painted ground floor and timber bressumer to front. Six/six-pane sash windows to second floor, horned plate glass sashes to rest. Central six-panel door, glazed to top, has tall overlight. Right return has one attic window to right, window toward corners of upper floors, and one window to centre of ground floor, No window to left return. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: A wall plaque to right of door has a lengthy inscription to effect that these premises were occupied formerly, by philatelist Henry Stafford Smith (1834-1903) who, with his brother, published from 1863 onwards, pioneer philatelic journal "The Stamp Collector's Magazine"; from this evidence, Bath was identified as the birth-place of modern philately. SOURCES: (Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992).

Listing NGR: ST7483065147