2-5, Henrietta Street

A row of four terrace houses, numbers 2 to 5 Henrietta Street, were built around 1792 as part of a larger development. They are attributed to Thomas Baldwin. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with double-pitched slate mansard roofs and moulded stacks to the party walls. They have a three-window facade to each house, over three storeys with attics and basements, and form a continuation to the left of a grand terrace facing Laura Place. The detailing, including the modillion cornice, entablature, moulded upper floor sill string courses, and ground floor platband, echoes that of the adjoining buildings. A ground floor arcade features a series of semicircular arched openings with an impost string course.

Originally, the windows were six-over-six pane sashes, with radial glazing bars to those on the ground floor, and each house had a six-panel door with a radial fanlight. Number 2 has 20th-century dormers, and the sash windows have plate glass, with splayed painted reveals. Number 3 appears unaltered. Number 4 similarly has 20th-century dormers and plate glass sashes throughout, again with splayed painted reveals. Number 5 is largely unaltered, also with plate glass windows in painted splayed reveals to the ground floor.

An inspection of the interior of number 3 in 1984 revealed a fine cornice with rams' heads, swags, a starfish and floral frieze, a sideboard recess with a decorated arch, Regency fireplaces, and other good marble fireplaces. Large double doors exist on the first floor.

These houses are part of the notable development of the Pulteney Estate east of the river. Henrietta Street was originally intended to connect Laura Place with a proposed development named Frances Square. Numbers 3, 4 and 5 were completed shortly before the bankruptcy of Luke Fielder in 1794, and are depicted as built on Chantry's plan of Bath in the same year. Number 5 was initially listed in 1955.