Nos. 6-11(Consec) And Attached Railings

Houses, now mixed use. Built 1745-1748 by John Wood the Elder. Altered in the late 19th century. Part of the uncompleted John Wood scheme for the Abbey Orchard, 1740-1748.

The building is constructed in Bath limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs. The ground floors of Nos. 6, 7 and 10 are painted. The style is Palladian.

These are six three-bay houses forming the centre of a twenty-six-bay terrace, arranged as three:ten:six:ten:three bays, with the outer threes and central six set slightly forward. The end four bays are return elevations of Nos. 8 South Parade and 12a North Parade respectively. The plan consists of double-depth houses with rear extensions.

The exterior comprises three storeys, attics and basement. A platband runs at first floor level. Nos. 6 and 7 have their doors paired on the facade, as do the central feature (Nos. 8 and 9). Nos. 10 and 11 have their doors on the left. All doors are eight-panel with some glazed panels, featuring pedimented heads on console brackets. Wrought-iron area railings are attached. Windows to Nos. 6, 7, 10 and 11 are late 19th-century plain plate-glass sashes; windows to Nos. 8 and 9 are replacement late 18th-century type six-over-six sashes (No. 10 also has two six-over-six sashes in the basement). First floor windows have cornice heads. Those to Nos. 6 and 10 have dropped sills; Nos. 10 and 11 have iron balconettes. Most windows have chamfered reveals. A modillion cornice and parapet with pediment runs across the six central bays. The roof is mansard; each house has two flat-topped dormers, with No. 7 having a double and single dormer. Stone stacks with pots appear throughout, though No. 6 has no pots.

Interior details are recorded from inspections of Nos. 7, 9 and 10:

No. 7 (inspected 18 March 1977): Second floor contains original four-panelled doors with cyma architraves. A small front room has moulded cornice, plain timber panelling and a small plain stone fireplace with cast-iron grate. A larger front room has matching cornice and a painted marble fireplace with late 19th-century grate. A back room features cyma and fascia cornice with an early cyma architrave fireplace (blocked). The staircase has an apsed half-landing. The third floor features a larger front room with plain stone fireplace (blocked) and a back room with iron fireplace (blocked). A central attic staircase serves the upper floor.

No. 9 (inspected 16 March 1983): The basement has a front room with two windows and a large range in Tudor-style arch, and a back room with one window and rear extension. The ground floor hall features a big cornice, panelling and an arch with flowers in the soffit. The front room has a Victorian ceiling rose, ovolo panelling with dado, six-panel raised-and-fielded doors, two windows and a white marble early 19th-century console fireplace with a niche featuring shaped shelves. The back room is entirely panelled with a Victorian cornice but no dado rails. A rear extension has a big timber cornice and unmoulded panelling. The first floor comprises subdivided front rooms (north and south) with modillion cornice, Victorian rose, windows with box shutters and early 19th-century marble fireplaces, and a back room with big timber cornice. A semi-circular landing has cornice and raised-and-fielded panelling. The second floor staircase is original with apsidal landing and Doric newels and Doric colonnette-on-vase banisters. Front rooms have windows with box shutters and four-panel ovolo doors with cyma architrave. The back extension was gutted by fire.

No. 10 (inspected 9 January 1986): The staircase has Doric colonnettes. The basement contains a back room with two windows having high sills. The ground floor main staircase has an apsidal half-landing, pine handrail and three Doric colonnette-on-vase banisters. The front room features a modillion cornice, two windows with Regency four-panel box shutters and a two-panel cupboard door with blocked doorway. The back room (subdivided) has windows with ovolo shutters flanking a fireplace with double-fascia cyma-reverse architrave and later high moulded skirting.