Nos. 4 And 5 With Boundary Wall And Gate Piers

A pair of terrace houses, dating from approximately 1800 to 1804, with alterations made in the late 19th century. They may have been designed by Charles Harcourt Masters. The buildings are constructed from limestone ashlar, with the ground floor painted on the north side, and have slate roofs.

The houses are double-depth, and accessed from the south side, but their principal elevation and garden face north. They are three storeys high, with two windows each, and feature a broad, blind central section. The second floor has plain tripartite sash windows. Above them are Venetian windows with glazing bars to No. 5, and plain windows to No. 4. The ground floor has single and paired sash windows, plain to No. 4 and twelve-pane to No. 5. Tuscan pillared and pedimented doorcases are present; No. 4 has an early door with arched glazed panels. The architecture includes channelled pilasters to the centre bays, a first floor platband, a frieze, a cornice, a blocking course, and a parapet. The hipped roof incorporates central and end ashlar stacks.

At the rear of No. 4 is a narrow, three-storey, parapeted wing with plain sashes in flush ashlar surrounds, constructed in coursed rubble, and a later two-storey range containing a six-panel door under a slab hood with a moulded edge, and brackets. A set-back main wall also has plain sashes. No. 5 features some twelve-pane sashes, and has a boundary wall with a door to a small enclosed yard, along with a three-storey narrow wing with large twelve-pane sashes above a paired nine-pane window set low to the right.

During an inspection by Bath Council in 1983, the interior of No. 4 was found to have a Georgian fireplace on the ground floor, decorated with garlands, and another Victorian console. The stairs have Victorian newel posts and slim moulded banisters. Georgian fireplaces are present on the first floor, and there are remains of a Georgian staircase to the top floor.

The north side has a full-width, coursed rubble wall approximately 1.8 meters high, with two pairs of rusticated ashlar piers to flat pyramid cappings, and a cast iron gate to No. 4. Lower walls also return at the party divisions. These buildings are part of a long, speculative row, displaying variations but retaining substantial original detail, particularly to the north elevations.