1-5, Vane Street

A row of five terraced houses located on Vane Street, built in 1818. They were likely designed by John Pinch the Elder for the Bathwick Estate. The houses are constructed from limestone ashlar with double-pitched slate roofs and moulded stacks to the party walls. They are four storeys high, including an attic, with a basement level. Each house has a three-window front.

Architecturally, the houses have a continuous coped parapet, an attic cornice, a second-floor cornice, a first-floor sill band, and a ground-floor platband. The ground floor is rusticated and steps forward slightly to the right around No.1. Originally, the houses had three/three-pane sash windows to the attics and six/six-pane sashes below. Many windows have been replaced with plate glass sashes on the first and ground floors. The original front doors are on the right-hand side of each house, except for No.5, which has the door on the left. Cornices on consoles adorn the central first-floor windows, with No.1 featuring a pediment instead. A two-light casement window is located to the left of the attic in No.1, with a blind window in the centre. The return of No.11 Edward Street is stepped forward at the left end, balancing the design.

No.1 has a two-light casement window to the left of the attic, a blind window to the centre, and a three/three-pane sash window to the right. No.2 has plate glass sash windows to all floors except the attic. The door to No.2 has margin panes above a two-pane overlight. No.3 remains largely unaltered with its original door. No.4 has plate glass sash windows to the first floor and retains the original door. No.5 also remains largely unaltered, with margin panes above a two-pane overlight to its left-hand door.

The interiors were not inspected, but are noted to feature panelled shutters. No.2 was specifically added to the list in 1972. The street is named after the Earls of Darlington, who owned the Bathwick estate. The future site of the row was indicated on a plan of Bath in 1793, but the houses were built in the post-Waterloo years, contributing to the new development around St Mary's, Bathwick.