46, Milsom Street

46 Milsom Street is a shop with offices above, built between 1900 and 1901 by Silcock and Wreay. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof that is partly visible from the street. It has a double depth plan, featuring a central entrance to the shop and a separate entrance to the offices on the left.

The exterior consists of three storeys and an attic, with five windows arranged in a one:three:one pattern, where the outer bays are set forward. The ground floor has arched doorways in the outer bays framed by Ionic half columns, although the right-hand doorway has been converted into a display window. To the left, there is a recessed six-panel door with an arched fanlight. The centre features a modern plate glass shopfront. Above, an entablature with a deep cornice forms a sill band for the first-floor windows, which are twelve/twelve-sashes set in moulded architraves. The outer windows have pediments on console brackets, while the three central windows have a continuous hoodmould, and there is a continuous sill band between them adorned with a foliage wreath. The second-floor windows are also twelve/twelve-sashes with moulded architraves. The building is topped with a heavy projecting modillion cornice and a balustraded parapet featuring panels of balustrade above each window, with four vases positioned above.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this building was reconstructed for Mallet and Son in 1900-1901, and they are listed in the 1901 Bath Directory at this address. Photographs from 1870 and 1900 in the Bath Chronicle show the earlier building, which was a four-bay structure and significantly different from the standard design by Thomas Jelly used for the rest of the street. A photograph from the celebrations for Edward VII's Coronation in 1902 shows the current building with its original ground floor, which included two additional Ionic half columns that had disappeared by the time of George V's Coronation in 1911.