108, Walcot Street

This house, now an architectural salvage warehouse, dates from around 1770. Originally, it had a long front garden, but this has been built over by an early 20th-century single-storey shop extension designed by Silcock and Reay for Hayward and Wooster. The main house is constructed of limestone ashlar, topped with a steep, double-pitched mansard roof covered in slate. It features paired dormers and moulded stacks with hand-thrown chimney pots to the left. The plan is a double-depth format.

The house has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a two-bay front. It has a coped parapet that slightly returns, and modillion cornices to both the front and rear. The windows are six/six-pane sash windows. The Edwardian shop front is in a Cotswold Baroque style, featuring an eight-light mullioned window incorporating doors, set under a pediment bearing the inscription 'HAYWARD AND WOOSTER' in raised capitals between decorative roundels. The shop extension has a balustraded parapet around its perimeter, a four-light side window to the south, and a set-back continuation to the south with a panelled door within a richly moulded architrave inscribed with 'OFFICE' above the door. A plaque sits above this door. There is a two-light mullioned window to the side of the office. At the rear of the main house, a coved string course runs above the first floor, with a first-floor sill band. There are tripartite windows to each floor, along with a 20th-century door to the right of the ground floor and a 20th-century shop at basement level. A steeply sloping site accommodates a substantial basement and ancillary buildings to the rear, all contemporary with the shop front, facing the street.

The interior of the rooms above ground floor retain a modillion plaster cornice in the front room, and a reeded cornice and window architrave in the rear room. A wooden staircase, with urn and column rails (three per tread) and column newels, remains. It is recorded that the poet Robert Southey (1774-1843) lived here at some point, in his aunt Mrs Tyler's house, according to a Bronze Bath plaque.