16, 17 AND 18, YORK STREET (See details for further address information)

Nos. 16, 17, and 18 York Street, along with No. 3 Terrace Walk, are a group of shops with accommodation above, built around 1807 and altered in the early 20th century. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs and follow a double depth plan typical of late Georgian houses.

They rise three storeys with attics, featuring three windows each, except for No. 3 Terrace Walk, which has one window and a blind window facing York Street, a canted corner, and one window return to Terrace Walk. The ground floor has 20th-century shopfronts, with No. 18's shopfront dating to 1906 and designed by Herbert W Matthews. Above the shopfronts are six-over-six sash windows, a cornice, a parapet, and a mansard roof, each with three flat-topped dormers. The buildings have double ashlar stacks with pots. No. 3 Terrace Walk has a blind first-floor window and a single dormer on both returns. The rear elevations are also ashlar and feature various extensions, along with some surviving original sash windows, including a Gothic interlace head on No. 18.

The interiors were not fully inspected, except for No. 3, which is now a pub. Its interior largely dates to the late 19th century and includes a fielded counter front, ornate shelving behind the bar, and a tiled fireplace surround; the lower part of the staircase has been replaced. The basement is now the Cellar Bar, where extensive barrel vaults remain in situ.

Leases for these houses date back to 1807, and evidence from the toothing on No. 16 suggests that the terrace was originally intended to extend further west. This terrace was built on the site of Lindsey's Rooms, which were demolished in 1806, as depicted in Buck's print of Bath from the southeast in 1734.