8, George Street

No. 8 George Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with accommodation above. It was built around 1734 by John Wood the Elder, although the front was altered in the late 18th century. The Ordnance Survey indicates that the building predates 1776. The shop front dates to the early 19th century and has undergone changes in the 20th century.

The structure is made of limestone ashlar, painted up to the first floor, and features a single-pitched slate mansard roof. It is four storeys high with a single-window range. The coped parapet returns over the left gable end, and there is a stopped cornice. The upper floors have tripartite windows, with four panes on the third floor, plate glass on the second floor, and a two-light four-pane casement with a lowered sill on the first floor. The early 19th-century shop on the ground floor has a 20th-century glazed door to the left, flanked by ornate spandrels and a semi-circular pane in the overlight. Above, a moulded cornice curves forward over a projecting shop window with five panes and overlights, with moulded sills and curved outer panes at the corners.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this house was the easternmost of a row built by Wood the Elder as part of his Queen Square development, which was noted on his 1735 plan of Bath. The street was later extended to the east by Daniel Milsom in the 1760s. An advertisement for John C. Pooley, a pharmaceutical chemist, appeared in the Bath Directory in 1864-65.