13, Green Street

GREEN STREET (South side) No.13 (Formerly Listed as: GREEN STREET (South side) Nos 10 & 11, No.12 (The Old Green Tree Public House). No. 13) 05/08/75

GV II

Terrace house, now shop with accommodation over. Early C18, altered and heightened early C19, with C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, now painted. PLAN: Narrow double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and attic with stringcourse at second floor level, and to parapet. Good early C19 shopfront of nine x four panes (narrow side panes), frieze and deep fascia, apparently early C18 doorway to left, brackets to cornice hood over door. First floor has three recessed plate glass sashes, second floor has one similar plus small square window. Mansard roof with single flat-topped dormer. INTERIOR: Of shop altered, otherwise not inspected. HISTORY: It is said that Bath Oliver biscuits were first baked and sold on this premises. Green Street was laid out in 1716, and the surviving two lower floors suggest this may be an original build. Fourteen houses were recorded by John Wood in his 'Essay towards a Description of Bath', 1749. SOURCES: (Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992-)

Listing NGR: ST7502264985