Nos. 4 And 5 And Attached Vaults

A house, later converted into flats, was likely built around 1775, possibly by John Wood the Younger. The front is faced with limestone ashlar, while the rear is not visible. It has a mansard roof covered with Welsh slate to the front, and a coped party wall with an ashlar stack featuring early clay pots and a similar ridge stack to the right. The building has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a five-window front, originally representing two houses. The first floor has five six/six-paned sash windows set within splayed, cyma moulded architraves, featuring friezes, cornices, and a central pediment rising from stone sills. The second floor mirrors the first, with sashes in similarly detailed architraves and stone sills. The ground floor has four sash windows in plain reveals with stone sills, and a six-panel door with a single-pane overlight, contained within a stone doorcase featuring a cyma moulded architrave and moulded brackets to a projecting cornice. Blocked basement openings are lit by gratings in the pavement. Dormers with plate glass sashes are present: one triple, one double, and one single. Architectural details include a plinth, band course over the ground floor, bracketed eaves cornice, and a coped parapet continuous with number 7 Fountain Buildings. The rear elevation is not visible. The interior remains uninspected. These double-fronted houses were built by William Philips and others, and incorporate an earlier house. A plaque records the building’s restoration by Knightstone Housing Association in 1981.