Nos. 32-34 (Consec) And Attached Railings And Gates

This is a substantial three-house terrace, now combined into a single property, dating to circa 1790. It was designed by Thomas Baldwin, John Eveleigh, and others as part of the development of the Bathwick estate east of the River Avon. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar, topped with double-pitched slate mansard roofs featuring dormers and moulded stacks, some with hand-thrown chimney pots rising from coped party walls.

The terrace is three storeys high, with attic space, lower ground floors, and basements. Each house presents a three-window front. A continuous coped parapet—partially removed over time—is complemented by a modillion cornice, frieze, and fascia, along with moulded first and second-floor string courses. The windows are sash windows with six panes per sash. The ground floor features a platband moulded to the base, displaying chamfered rustication with radial voussoirs to flat arches, a plinth, and raised and fielded panels to eight-panel doors with overlights.

The upper floors are irregularly articulated by a giant order of fluted Corinthian columns. Number 33 steps slightly forward. The windows of number 32 are similar to those of number 31, but lack a front door. Upper windows are flanked by Corinthian columns, with a quarter column in the angle with number 33. Vitruvian scroll sill bands and rectangular plan balconettes are a feature of the second floor, while number 33 has segmental plan balconettes to the second floor and a plain overlight to a six-panel door on the left-hand side.

Internal inspection by Bath Council in 1981 revealed that number 31 contains an early 19th-century fireplace, Georgian shutters on the ground floor, a fine white marble fireplace in the rear with a grey panel in the centre, and an Old Hall with a reeded arch at the base of the staircase. The first floor also boasts good fireplaces. Number 33 has a fluted Georgian fireplace and original fireplaces throughout, featuring a semi-fluted arch with water leaf caps and an oval plaque within the soffit. Number 34 has its original and early 19th-century fireplaces, and retains original architraving.

Subsidiary features include square-section railings with urn finials and vases above plinths, alongside gates providing access to the basement areas. Great Pulteney Street, of which this terrace forms a significant portion, was laid out on an unusually generous 100-foot width and represents one of the most impressive urban compositions in Britain. Though Robert Adam prepared initial designs in 1782, Thomas Baldwin was responsible for the final design. Progress was delayed by a building crash in the mid-1790s.