1, Henrietta Street

HENRIETTA STREET 656-1/0/0 (West side) No.1 (Formerly Listed as: HENRIETTA STREET Nos.1-4, 5, 6-35 (Consec)) 12/06/50

GV I

End terrace house, part of a larger scheme. c1792. By Thomas Baldwin. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate mansard roof hipped to left with moulded stacks to party walls. PLAN: Irregular plan, almost triangular, tapering to the rear. EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attic and basement, three-window range. Facade spanned by modillioned pediment, modillion cornice, entablature, moulded second and first floor sill strings and ground floor platband extend over Nos 2-5 Henrietta Street (qv) to right. Horned six/six-pane sash windows, that to centre of first floor semicircular arched with radial glazing bars, cornice on moulded consoles with acanthus bases and frieze with double wheat-ear festoons and ribbons to top. Chamfered rusticated ground floor has radial voussoirs to three equal openings, that to right has set back six-panel door glazed to top and elaborate overlight. One-window left return, canted into Laura Place flanked by grand order of fluted Corinthian pilasters and right terminal of symmetrical terrace. INTERIOR: Not inspected HISTORY: This part of Henrietta St is shown as built up on Chantry¿s 1793 plan of Bath. This house is listed Grade I as it is intimately connected with Laura Place, part of one of the outstanding examples of town planning in late C18 England. SOURCES: (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980-: 13; ).

Listing NGR: ST7526765040