Monmouth Hotel

The Monmouth Hotel occupies three terrace houses located at Nile Street (Nos. 1, 2, and 3) and Monmouth Place (Nos. 16a and 17) in Bath. The property dates to circa 1790, with a lease for No. 3 dated 1792, and includes 20th-century additions.

The building is constructed from limestone ashlar with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. The plan comprises double-depth properties topped with a mansard roof, with the left-hand side returned as a hip roof. The central three bays are raised as a full attic.

The exterior presents three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a facade of three plus three plus two windows, all featuring glazing bar sashes. The raised attic has three six-pane windows flanked by two plain sash dormers, above twelve-pane windows. The first bay is blind, and a deep fifteen-pane window is present at the first floor in bays one, four, five, and six. Balconettes are present on the first floor. The ground floor features a two-pane shopfront with an entrance splayed across the corner under a fascia, as well as four twelve-pane windows and three six-panel doors under deep transom lights. No. 1 has reeded pilasters to deep consoles and a frieze, plus a cornice moulded hood. There are five basement grilles in the pavement. Additional details include a small plinth, broad first floor platband, lintel, frieze, moulded cornice, blocking course and a parapet, all returned to the Monmouth Place front. The Monmouth Place front includes the Monmouth Hotel, with one, two, and one bays exhibiting a twelve-pane window above a deep fifteen-pane window with balconettes, and at ground floor, a single twelve-pane window, two six-panel doors with radial bar transom lights, a small service opening to the right, and a two-pane display front. Three dormers are present at the front, one containing a twelve-pane sash. Deep ashlar sashes are present in pairs at coped party divisions. The returned end in Monmouth Place incorporates a double gabled rubble wall, retained from a previously adjacent property, which is continued as ashlar up to the Nile Street building. Late 20th-century rear additions are also present.

The interiors have not been inspected.

The terrace is part of the late 18th-century development of this section of Bath and takes its name from Nelson's victory of 1798.