Park View House

Park View House is a house dating from 1766 to 1770, with 20th-century additions, situated on the corner of Upper Church Street and Brock Street. It was designed by John Wood the Younger and is part of the Brock Street development, acting as a connection between the Circus and the Royal Crescent.

The house is constructed of limestone ashlar, with a hipped slate mansard roof featuring 20th-century dormers and moulded stacks along the central ridge. It has a double-depth plan and a two-storey continuation to the left. The main facade features a pair of tripartite windows, a returned coped parapet, a modillion cornice, and a ground floor Platband inscribed in sunken capitals reading `UPPER CHURCH St’. The windows are mostly six/six-pane sash windows, although some have plate glass (with a six/six-pane pattern to the basement). The lower floors have splayed reveals to Venetian windows, and the first-floor windows include balconettes – trellised on the right and with vertical railings on the left. The left wing incorporates a 20th-century mansard roof, with two paired dormers. The return to the Brock Street elevation has a single window which forms the left terminal of the Brock Street Terrace, sharing similar features to the main facade. A plate glass sash window illuminates the first floor, accompanied by a wide trellised balconette.

The doorcase features a pediment and entablature supported by engaged Ionic columns, framing a 19th-century five-panel door with a decorative upper panel. A bronze plaque alongside the door commemorates John Christopher Smith (1712-1795), a friend and secretary of Handel. The interior remains uninspected. In the 1760s Wood leased land to builders for this development.