1-7, Walcot Buildings

Walcot Buildings comprises seven houses with shops on the ground floor, forming part of a terrace. The buildings date from the late 18th century and have undergone alterations, particularly to the shopfronts in the 19th and 20th centuries. They are constructed of limestone ashlar, with a rubble stone return, featuring dormers to double-pitched mansard roofs. The roofs are covered with pantile, double Roman tiles to the upper slopes, and slate to the lower slopes, featuring moulded stacks to the coped party walls, except between numbers 5 and 6, which have adjacent doors. The buildings have double-depth plans.

The exterior presents three storeys with attics and basements, with each house originally featuring a two-window front over the shop. A continuous coped parapet and cornice are present, along with a ground floor platband, largely obscured by the shopfronts. Originally, the upper floors held six-pane sash windows. Number 1 has a restored early 19th-century shopfront with a moulded cornice and fascia. The shop window includes two rows of five panes, and the entrance features a half-glazed door with a tall overlight. Number 2 has slate roofing, a double stack to the left, six-pane sash windows, and a painted stone, pedimented doorcase with a dentil cornice and Tuscan pilasters. Its 1888 shopfront, by FW Gardiner, includes a small-paned modern window. Number 3 likely functioned as a butcher's shop, featuring a projecting flat canopy on large scroll brackets, a late 19th-century shopfront with a modern window similar to that of Number 2, a six-panel door with a blocked overlight, and a plain 20th-century door with a narrow blocked overlight and remnants of wrought iron railings. Number 4 has a dormer with a six-pane sash window and plate glass sashes over a 20th-century shop. Number 5 features a dormer with a six-pane sash window and an early 19th-century shopfront, altered with a moulded cornice and fascia following the contour of the projecting central window, rounded to the corners. Number 6, wider than the others, has paired two-pane sash windows to the dormer and six-pane sashes above a mid-19th-century projecting shopfront with a dentil cornice to the fascia. Number 7 has six-pane sash windows and a boxed-in projecting shopfront with ornamented tops to colonnettes between three plate glass panes. The terrace was originally known as Albemarle Buildings and is shown on Harcourt Masters’s plan of Bath from 1793. The interiors have not been inspected.