No. 5 And Attached Railings

No. 5 Ainslie's Belvedere is a house, dating to approximately 1780, and now used as flats. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with a rubble basement, and has a parapeted roof covered with concrete tiles to the front. Two ashlar chimney stacks are located on the right-hand side. A staircase leads to the front.

The three-storey house has a two-window front. The first floor features six/six sash windows set in splayed reveals with stone sills, with a wrought iron balconette to the right and a similar nine/six sash window to the left. The second floor has two six/six sash windows, the right-hand one with horns, also in splayed reveals. The ground floor has a six/six sash window to the right, a three-panel door with reeded panels and a moulded panel featuring applied moulding to form a diamond pattern, with a 19th-century knocker and a moulded glazed panel within a pedimented Doric doorcase with a fluted frieze. A small window is located to the left of the door. There is one step leading to a Pennant paved crossover with a 19th-century cast iron footscraper. The basement has a six/six sash in a plain reveal with splayed jambs and a stone sill, and a 20th-century door located under the crossover. A band course runs over the ground floor, and a moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet continue the line with No. 4 Ainslie’s Belvedere. The rear elevation has one eight/eight sash window with a wrought iron balconette to each of the basement, ground, and first floors; the first-floor window has had its horizontal bars removed, creating a four/four sash appearance. Two six/six sashes with wrought iron balconettes are on the second floor. Small 20th-century windows are present on the basement, ground, and first floors, as well as a small extension with a 20th-century window. The interior has not been inspected.

Attached to the property are wrought iron railings with shaped heads on buns, set on Pennant bases.

Historical records, dated by Ison to 1780, show an auction advertised in the Bath Chronicle on 27 November 1794 of "Ainslie's Belvedere, being 6 substantial dwelling houses”. A William Ainslie was one of the original lessees of a house in The Circus.