5-10, Old Bond Street

Nos. 5-10, Old Bond Street is a terrace of six houses with shops, dating to around 1780, with 19th and 20th-century additions and alterations. The building is constructed from limestone ashlar, with the main facades painted, though this does not extend to the upper floors of Nos. 5-8. The roof is not visible.

The houses are three storeys high, each with one bay. They exhibit a tripartite eight:twelve:eight pane sash window arrangement above similar Palladian windows. No. 7 has been altered, retaining two lights of the original tripartite sash, the third blocked, with a new light inserted to the left. The first-floor centre light has been omitted, replaced with a small balconette and another light inserted to the left. The shops have varied frontages. No. 5 features a triple ‘oriel’ with small-pane transom lights to a common fascia with a cornice. The building has undergone alterations in 1882 by C. Wibley, around 1800 on the Burton Street side, and in 1869 on the Old Bond Street side. Nos. 7 and 8 have undulating bow fronts with shallow entablatures, plain glazing, and a central door with a transom light. No. 8 has a further door to the left, while the area on either side of the central door is divided into twenty panes. Nos. 9 and 10 have late 20th-century plate glass fronts (dating to 1967, by Rolfe and Crozier-Cole), which extend to the south end.

The building has severe detailing, including a cornice, blocking course, and parapet, with a small square eaves stack between Nos. 6 and 7. The north end, facing Milsom Street, features a niche with a putti on a plinth at first-floor level, above a 19th-century shopfront with a recessed door to the right and a modillion cornice, sweeping down to carved Royal Arms with supporters. The south end has a clock face above a twelve-pane sash. The Old Bond Street frontage has seven twelve-pane sashes and smaller lights above a diverse range of shopfronts. Above the ground-floor platband, which is incised with 'BOND STREET', is a small cove cornice. Three ashlar stacks are located at the centre of the building.

The interiors have not been inspected. This terrace was constructed near a former market space, potentially on the site of earlier buildings and just outside the mediaeval town wall. The straight jointing in the masonry suggests the construction may have been undertaken in stages.