16, 17 and 18, Springfield Place

The group comprises three houses at 16, 17, and 18 Springfield Place, dating to the 1820s. Originally a symmetrical pair, the group was later altered in the late 19th century with the addition of No. 18 around 1860. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with an unseen roof and pedimented stacks on the party walls.

The facades display a range of treatments. No. 16, on the left, has late 19th-century plate glass sash windows and a lower, one-window left wing with a returned coped parapet, cornice, and second-floor platband. Features include stop-chamfered arrises to plate glass sash windows, louvred shutters to a first-floor window, a wrought iron scrolled balconette over a five-panel door with a glazed overlight set in a reeded architrave with roundels, and a two-storey canted bay window with a coped parapet and panelled aprons. No. 17, in the centre, has three horned two-over-two-pane sash windows to the attic and eight-over-eight-pane sash windows with balconettes, flanked by blind painted windows with real eight-over-eight glazing bars. A Venetian-style doorcase has a plain fanlight over a six-panel door, which is flanked by small plate glass sash windows. No. 18, the addition, is gabled with raised rusticated quoins, and platbands at lintel level. It has four-over-four-pane tripartite windows with raised surrounds, and a two-storey wing to the right with paired four-over-four-pane sash windows and a 20th-century porch. Similar windows are located to the rear.

The interiors of the houses have not been inspected. No. 18 is included in the listing primarily for group value. These houses are part of a characteristic Regency suburban development reflecting the influence of Greek Revival architecture on the domestic buildings of Bath.