Rood House

MACAULAY BUILDINGS (West side) No.21 Rood House (Formerly Listed as: WIDCOMBE HILL (South side) Nos.21 AND 22) 05/08/75

GV II

Detached Tudorbethan villa. c1830 with C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: Compact square double depth symmetrical block. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and lower ground floor, three windows, all two-light six-pane casements, to common stopped drip over first floor, with individual drips at ground floor, laylights to basement each side of central gabled porch with terminal cross on moulded pointed arch. Door has glazed panels, including pointed head. Crenellated parapet has simple cornice. To left on coped gables are two stacks, with heavy block like crenellated cappings, blind centre light, to right similar stack, on rear gable, with triple casement and sixteen-pane sash at top level, and large lean-to conservatory at ground level on projecting lower ground floor wing. Rear asymmetrical, with high crenellated gable to left, having small square light above plain triple casement with thin stone mullions, and crenellated bay. To right high ashlar attic with tripartite plain sash, centre light higher, above straight crenellated parapet to canted bay with one:three:one-light sashes. INTERIOR: No.21 recorded by Bath Preservation Trust 1990's. Has retained most of its features. HISTORY: Part of speculative development embracing Nos 1-20 Macaulay Buildings, undertaken by Thomas Macaulay Cruttwell from 1819 onwards, this, with No.22 (qv) is slightly later than remainder, and demonstrates the change in style from Neo-Classical conformity to Romantic eclecticism.

Listing NGR: ST7649463781