17-29, Lambridge Place

A terrace of thirteen houses at 17-29 Lambridge Place was built between 1792 and 1800 by John Eveleigh for Richard Hewlett. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar, mostly painted, and have double-pitched slate mansard roofs with moulded stacks to the party walls. The plans are double-depth. The houses are three storeys high with basements, and each front has two or three windows. They are characterised by coped parapets, cornices, and a first-floor sill band. The windows were originally paired six-pane or eight-pane sashes, though some have been altered. Some windows have chamfered architraves. The front doors are six-panel doors. Number 26 retains some crown glass. Number 29, at the left end of the terrace, has tripartite windows to the front elevation, with blind flanking lights on the second floor. The interior of the houses was not inspected, with the exception of number 21, which was recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust in 1991, revealing a staircase with a closed string, wooden treads, square balusters, and quarter turns. Fireplaces were removed from the ground floor, and all doors and architraves have been replaced. Some houses were completed by 1794, while others were sold unfinished due to bankruptcy and a building slump in the mid-1790s.