No. 7 With Railings

No. 7 with railings is a terraced house built around 1730 by John Strahan and remodeled around 1760. It is constructed from limestone ashlar with a pantile roof. The building has three storeys and a basement, featuring glazing bar sash windows: two twelve-pane windows on the second floor, two eighteen-pane windows and one blind window on the first floor, and two eighteen-pane windows on the ground floor, all set in architraves with a cornice hood on a pulvinated frieze. The basement includes two twelve-pane windows with large keystones above a broad platband made of rubble. To the right, there is a six-panel fielded door with a plain transom light, framed in a moulded architrave, and topped with a segmental pediment supported by fluted pilasters with consoles. The house has a cornice, a shallow blocking course, and a parapet that returns to a coped gable on the left, which features a deep stack.

The basement area is enclosed by railings on a stone curb that returns at the doorway. This house is part of a significant effort to create an architecturally coherent square in a style distinct from that of John Wood, marking an important phase in the development of Bath and holding great group value with the Theatre Royal. The house retains some of the original Strahan details on the ground floor but was modified and raised by one storey later in the 18th century, which affected the overall architectural effect, reflecting the limited controls in place during the early development of the square.