25, Milsom Street

MILSOM STREET (East side) No.25 (Formerly Listed as: MILSOM STREET (East side) Nos.25-36 (Consec)) 12/06/50

GV II

Terrace house, now shop with offices over. c1761-1765 with C19 and C20 alterations. Perhaps by Thomas Jelly, shopfront by Ellkington Gill, 1868. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front and rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh slate to front and rear, with coped party wall with two ashlar stacks to right. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three two-light timber casements with tilting opening lights over in ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices, with pediment to centre, and lowered stone sills. Second floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded eared architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has to right C20 shopfront with plate glass window, to left six-panel door with flush beaded and fielded panels with plate glass overlight in semicircular headed plain reveal with C19 carved impost blocks and moulded archivolt. Small grating in pavement to light basement. Single and double dormers with two-light casement and plate glass sashes. Modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Lead downpipe attached to left from No.24 Milsom Street (qv), moulded lead hopperhead and downpipe to right shared with No.26 Milsom Street (qv). Rear elevation partially visible has plate glass and two/two horned sashes to second floor, two single dormers with plate glass sashes. INTERIOR: Not inspected. SOURCES: (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: London: 1948-: 151; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 457 Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992-).

Listing NGR: ST7492865141