5, Abbey Green

House, now a shop with accommodation above, dating from the early 18th century and altered in the late 19th century. The lower courses are of Bath limestone ashlar, while the rest of the building is constructed of limestone rubble, which is no longer rendered. The roof is covered in Welsh slate. The building is of a double depth plan and has three storeys and attics, with three windows grouped in the middle. The windows have beaded architraves. A late 19th-century shop front has been fitted. The front door has a wood bolection architrave and is part glazed, with a rectangular light above. Flanking windows have four panes, divided by narrow timber mullions. The windows above are late 19th-century plate glass sashes in dressed surrounds. A string course runs along the second floor level. A crowning cornice and parapet top the building, with a hipped mansard roof in two parallel ranges, including two flat-topped dormers with plain sashes, and a tall ashlar stack with pots to the right. The interior was not inspected, though the ground floor has been considerably altered. The house was likely originally rendered, reflecting a style of construction typical of builders preceding John Wood the Elder in the 1720s. The late 19th-century alterations may have occurred after the sale of the Kingston Estate in 1874. The western elevation was obscured when an adjoining archway was constructed in 1972. The building has had a varied history, having been the "Raven" public house around 1750, occupied by J Cole, a corn-cutter, in 1809, and later, Holley's fruit shop in 1906.