2-6, North Parade Buildings

Nos. 2-6 North Parade Buildings, also known as Galloway's Buildings, are a row of houses, now offices, dating from 1753. They are likely to have been designed by Thomas Jelly. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar with pantile roofs and feature a double-depth plan.

The three-storey buildings have an attic and a basement, and consist of three windows each, with Nos. 5 and 6 originally intended as a single house with five windows and a central doorway, mirroring No. 7 opposite. The design represents an early example of a standard elevation—three stories high and three windows wide. Doorways are framed by engaged columns or pilasters with plain shafts and elaborate Corinthian capitals, supporting triangular pedimented entablatures that break the lines of the platband. The windows are largely late 18th century sash windows with six/six panes, including basements, though those in No. 2 have been filled in. A six-panel door is present to each house, except for Nos. 5 and 6, which have plain doorways without architraves. No. 4 features a boxed duct rising up the front elevation beside the doorcase. The Mansard roof has two flat-topped dormers to each house, along with ashlar stacks topped with decorative pots. Areas are enclosed by wrought iron railings.

The return elevation of No. 6 shows reconstruction of the rear portion, likely following bomb damage in 1942. Interior details are uninspected, but No. 2 retains a fine, pedimented doorcase on the first-floor landing, while No. 4 is noted to have a very good interior.

The buildings illustrate a shift in house front design from the style of John Wood the Elder to a less Palladian approach common in Bath during the latter half of the 18th century, attributable to architects such as John Wood the Younger and John Palmer. They were built on land granted as a garden to William Galloway, an apothecary, who had held it since 1738, and were "new built" in 1753. No. 1 North Parade Buildings is architecturally related, but is now incorporated into No. 1 North Parade.