25 Rivers Street and attached railings

This is a three-storey, attic, and basement terrace house located on Rivers Street, built between 1770 and 1775. It is part of the Rivers Street development by John Wood the Younger.

The front of the house is faced with limestone ashlar, while the plinth to the basement is rubble. The rear is constructed of a mix of ashlar and rubble. It has a double-pile, parapeted mansard roof, with Welsh Slate in the lower slope and double Roman tiles in the upper slope. The rear has Welsh Slate, alongside a coped party wall with two ashlar stacks, some featuring early clay pots to the left.

The first floor has three plate glass sash windows with horns, set within ovolo moulded architraves, splayed jambs with friezes and cornices, and lowered moulded stone sills resting on cut-down console brackets. The second floor mirrors this design with three similar plate glass sash windows. The ground floor features two plate glass sash windows to the left, and a six-panel door to the right. The door has flush reeded panels, with a patterned cut in the frosted upper panel, and stands within a pedimented Doric doorcase with two steps leading to a pennant-paved crossover – a pair of 19th-century cast iron foot-scrapers remains. The basement has two six-pane sash windows in plain reveals with stone sills, and a limestone area with pennant inserts and a wrought iron handrail. A double dormer window is positioned centrally on the mansard roof, featuring two-pane sash windows. Architectural details include a band course over the ground floor, a modillion eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation includes plate glass sash windows with and without horns, along with a 20th-century conservatory extension.

The interior of the property has not been inspected.

Attached to the front are wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped heads, set on concrete-coated bases.

Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger on three parcels of land, with No.25 being constructed on ground conveyed on perpetual leasehold. Other sections of the street were developed on land conveyed from the Rivers Estate and purchased from various owners, with construction dates spanning between 1766 and 1774, often undertaken by different Bath builders carrying out Wood’s overall design. The property's history is documented in building leases and rate books, and further information can be found in Walter Ison’s "The Georgian Buildings of Bath."