3-11, Southcot Place

Nine terrace houses built in 1817, constructed from limestone ashlar with concrete tile roofs, except No.5 which has asbestos cement slate. The terrace forms a long consistent composition with a double roof to a central valley, with the centre and each end stepped forward very slightly (approximately 100mm). The houses are set across a steep slope which generates an extra storey to the rear. The terrace is attached to No.21 Lyncombe Hill on the left, and complemented by Nos 12 to 16, which are set at right angles at the east end of an open square.

The exterior consists of three storeys and a basement, with varied one and two-window fronts. All houses have sash windows and entrances to the right, usually with an early panelled door featuring a decorative fanlight in a plat surround with keystone.

No.3 has a six-pane sash and small plain sash at second floor; a large twelve-pane sash with margin panes at first floor with an iron flower guard; the same arrangement at ground floor; and a basement sash in a railed area. No.4 has a six-pane sash plus small plain sash paired to a blind panel above a sixteen-pane sash and blind light, above a sixteen-pane sash and door, with a railed area and glazed laylight to the basement. No.5 has plain sashes at ground and first floors with flower guards, and a laylight to the basement. Nos 6 and 7 have six-pane and plain sashes above twelve-pane sashes with margin panes at ground and first floors, with railed basement areas; No.7 has flower guards to the first and second floors. No.8 has six-pane and small sashes plus blind lights above four-pane sashes at first and ground floors, with a railed basement area, and a flower guard to the first floor. No.9 is similar but with twelve-pane sashes with margin panes at ground and first floors, and also has a flower guard to the first floor. No.10 has six-pane sashes above four-pane sashes with flower guard and tiny four-pane sash, above four-pane sash and door, with a large laylight to the basement but no railing. No.11 has four-pane sashes at each floor, with a railed basement area. The first floor platband carries the inscription "SOUTHCOT-PLACE" in fine Roman lettering at the far left end. A continuous flat cornice with blocking course and parapet runs across the façade.

The rear elevation is also ashlar, with a cornice and parapet; each house has one window, but with various inserts, many with twelve-pane or margin pane sashes, and with dropped sashes to the staircases. Nos 3, 8 and 10 have small flat-roofed extensions. The double-gabled east end is plain.

The interiors have been recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust Interiors Survey. No.3 records the survival of a stone stair with mahogany hand rail; good plasterwork including reeded cornices and a reeded arch to the hall; chimneypieces with cast iron grates and painted wooden surrounds. No.5 similarly records a four-flight stone stair with similar reeded decoration, with lozenges at corners of door cases; a ceiling to the drawing room with foliate and vine decoration; and a basement kitchen retaining copper. No.6 records similar features surviving. No.8 likewise records similar features surviving. No.9 records an interior similar to the above surviving in good condition, with grey marble chimneypieces and plasterwork consistent with the rest of the terrace.