8-13, Alfred Street

The terrace at 8-13 Alfred Street, which includes the section fronting Bartlett Street, comprises six houses and a restaurant, built between 1773 and 1775. It is likely the work of John Wood the Younger. The buildings are constructed from Bath limestone ashlar with double-pitched, half-hipped slate mansard roofs, featuring dormers and moulded stacks rising from the party walls. They have a double-depth plan, and each house presents a three-window front over three storeys with attics and basements.

The terrace features a continuous coped parapet, returning over the gable ends, and a continuous cornice with modillions to the front, along with a ground-floor platband. The upper floors have moulded architraves, with cornices, lowered sills, and splayed reveals to the windows, which are mostly six/six-pane sash windows. The shopfronts at numbers 8 and 9, now a restaurant, date from 1898 and 1902, with a continuous cornice to the fascia supported by paired panelled pilasters. Number 8 has centrally set-back doors. At number 10, there are plate glass sash windows without horns to the first floor, and leaded casement windows to the ground floor, along with an eight-panel, glazed door. Number 11 is similar to number 10, with the addition of balconettes to the first floor. Number 12 has two/two-pane sash windows to the second floor and plate glass sashes to the first and ground floors, with splayed reveals to the ground floor. It has an eight-panel door to the right, within a moulded architrave under a cornice on shaped consoles. Number 13 mirrors number 12, with six/six-pane sash windows to the second floor.

The interiors were not inspected and the ground floors have been altered. The terrace formed part of the northward expansion of Bath, linked to the construction of the Assembly Rooms across the street. Numbers 8–12 were altered in 1898 for the department store Evans and Owen, which formerly displayed large projecting letters on the second floor. Further alterations were made in the 1890s by Browne and Gill, with later alterations to number 9 by Gill and Morris in 1902.