No. 1 And Attached Railings

No. 1 and its attached railings are a terrace house, now converted into flats, built around 1790-1793. Later alterations occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house was designed by John Palmer and was intended as part of an incomplete development around St James's Square.

The front of the building is limestone ashlar, with a rubble basement, and a Welsh slate, double-pile, mansard roof. The rear features double Roman bricks and a coped party wall on the left side, with an ashlar stack facing the front, and a rendered stack at the rear. A staircase is located at the rear.

The house is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a three-window front. The first floor has three two-paned sash windows set in splayed reveals, each with wrought iron balconettes. The second floor mirrors the first, also with three two-paned sash windows in splayed reveals, stone sills, and wrought iron balconettes. The ground floor features two two-paned sash windows in splayed reveals and stone sills, and to the right, a six-panel door with a reeded, fielded panel and a single glazed panel, set within a pedimented doorcase with Doric pilasters. A single step leads to a pennant-paved crossover with a cast iron footscraper. The basement has two six-paned sash windows in plain reveals with splayed lintels and a continuous stone sill, and a 20th-century door set partly within an infilled ashlar section. Limestone steps with a wrought iron handrail lead to the front. A double dormer window is present with plate glass sashes. The rear elevation has a partially visible two-storey ashlar extension and 19th-century windows.

The interior, inspected by Bath council in 1986, retains an original fireplace with a shelf featuring a Pompeian scroll edge.

Attached to the property are cast iron baluster railings and a gate with shaped tops on limestone bases.

The building's development was part of a lease agreement from Sir Peter Rivers Gay to Fielder, King, Hewlett and Broom in 1790. Great Bedford Street was designed as one of four diagonal approaches to St James's Square, but it was never completed. Numbers 7-11 were destroyed by bombing in 1942.