Bath Scout Headquarters

The Bath Scout Headquarters, located at Nos. 7 and 8 Grove Street, is a late 19th-century church house, possibly dating to 1887, with 20th-century alterations. It is likely the work of Wallace Gill. The building is constructed of machine-cut limestone ashlar with a pantile and slate roof, featuring moulded stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and presents a six-window range across three storeys and an attic. No. 7 has a moulded stack and a mansard roof with a crested ridge; the upper slope is pantile and the lower slope has a 19th-century dormer. A continuous coped parapet rises to the left over a forward-facing gable, which has a louvered slit at its apex (No. 8). Upper-floor windows are plate-glass sashes with coved lintels and run-out chamfered jambs. Ground-floor windows have stone mullions. A moulded string course runs below the parapet, acting as a label mould over the windows to the left, centre, and right. The left windows are two-pane sashes, the centre window is a two-pane sash, and the right windows are lower paired plate-glass sashes. Paired first-floor sash windows have decorative relieving arches, with plate glass to the centre and right and two-pane sashes to the left. The ground floor features label moulds over paired two-light stone-mullioned and transomed three-pane casement windows. To the inside right of the ground floor is a 20th-century stone mullioned three-light window with plain openings. Further to the right, there is a flat-arched recess with overlights to double small-paned glazed doors. The central range has a shallow pointed arch hoodmould over 20th-century double doors, and to the right, a small panel with a carved lion and crown above a small window and letterbox. The interior remains uninspected. The building was originally constructed as St. Mary’s Church House.