Bath Bridge Club And Attached Railings

Bath Bridge Club and Attached Railings, Catharine Place (West side), Nos. 15 and 15A

This house, now converted to a club and flats, was built between approximately 1777 and 1784 by John Wood the Younger. It has undergone alterations during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The building is constructed of limestone ashlar to the front, with traces of old limewash visible to the basement. The rear is rendered and ashlar. It has a double pile parapeted roof, hipped to the left and covered with Welsh slate to front and rear. A coped party wall to the right carries two ashlar stacks with some early clay pots, shared with No. 14 Catharine Place. A small two-storey range to the left sits behind the parapet.

The building is positioned at the south end of the west range of Catharine Place, where it breaks forward slightly to form a terminating pavilion to the terrace. A small single bay range is set back slightly to the left, now two storeys (probably raised in the 19th century), with a staircase to the rear.

The main facade is four storeys tall with a basement. The front has three windows across the main range, with a two-storey single window range to the left. The first floor features three plate glass horned sashes in splayed ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices, with lowered moulded stone sills on console brackets. The small range to the left has a plate glass sash in a plain reveal with a stone sill. The second floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. The third floor has three plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, matching the window in the range to the left. The basement contains two six-over-six sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, protected by wrought iron window guards with shaped heads to the bars. An ashlar extension in the basement area includes a blocked doorway, with no area steps.

Decorative detailing includes a band course over the ground floor to the right, incised with the street name "Catharine Place". A modillion cornice sits at the former eaves level over the second floor. The eaves feature a hollow moulded cornice and coped parapet. To the left, a moulded cornice marks the probable former eaves line over the ground floor, with a moulded coping to the parapet over the second floor.

The left side (entrance front) has a 19th-century horned sash with coloured and etched glass borders in the first floor of the smaller range, set in a plain reveal with a stone sill. The second floor has three blind windows with stone sills featuring six-over-six glazing painted on. The ground floor contains one six-over-six sash in a plain reveal with a stone sill and wrought iron window guard with shaped heads to the bars, positioned to the left. Two blind windows with stone sills stand to the right. At the centre left is a six-panel door with flush reeded and fielded panels and a three-pane overlight, set in a pedimented Doric doorcase with a wrought iron lampholder. A 20th-century door opens to the side of the rear extension. This elevation features a plinth, a moulded cornice over the ground floor, and a moulded coping to the parapet of the small additional range. The upper mouldings of the modillion cornice from the front continue along this side, with a coped parapet to the roof.

The rear elevation includes a six-over-six sash to the second half-landing of the staircase. Otherwise, it contains 19th and 20th-century windows and a 20th-century single-storey extension.

Interior features, partially inspected by Bath Council in 1981, include an early 19th-century white marble fireplace. The ground floor front room has fine mouldings and an early 19th-century fireplace with interesting cupboards either side in the alcoves; these comprise two four-panelled doors and four drawers beneath, topped with classic pediment detail.

Attached wrought iron railings with shaped heads sit on limestone bases.