Rood House

Rood House is a detached Tudorbethan villa built around 1830, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a slate roof. The building has a compact square, double-depth symmetrical layout, with three storeys and a lower ground floor. The exterior includes three windows, all of which are two-light six-pane casements. These have a common stopped drip over the first floor and individual drips at the ground floor. There are laylights to the basement on either side of a central gabled porch, which has a terminal cross on a moulded pointed arch. The door features glazed panels, including a pointed head. The building is topped with a crenellated parapet that has a simple cornice.

On the left side, there are two stacks with heavy block-like crenellated cappings, and a blind centre light. To the right, there is a similar stack on the rear gable, which has a triple casement and a sixteen-pane sash at the top level, along with a large lean-to conservatory at ground level on a projecting lower ground floor wing. The rear of the house is asymmetrical, featuring a high crenellated gable on the left with a small square light above a plain triple casement with thin stone mullions, and a crenellated bay. On the right side, there is a high ashlar attic with a tripartite plain sash, where the centre light is higher, above a straight crenellated parapet leading to a canted bay with one:three:one-light sashes.

The interior of No. 21 was recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust in the 1990s and has retained most of its original features. Rood House is part of a speculative development that includes Nos. 1-20 Macaulay Buildings, which was undertaken by Thomas Macaulay Cruttwell starting in 1819. This villa, along with No. 22, was built slightly later than the others and reflects the transition from Neo-Classical design to Romantic eclecticism.