No. 1 and Attached Railings

This is a house, built around 1810, designed by John Pinch the Elder. It is a building of group value, contributing significantly to the character of its surroundings. The house is constructed of limestone ashlar to both the front and rear, with a Welsh slate roof and an ashlar stack on the left end, sharing early clay pots with the adjacent No. 2 Cavendish Place. The plan features a staircase positioned to the rear of the building.

The property is four storeys high, plus a cellar, and has a single window range to the front. The first floor has a six-over-six sash window with a wrought iron balconette, mirroring that of No. 2 Cavendish Place. The second floor has a similar six-over-six sash with a stone sill, and the third floor has a three-over-six sash window. On the ground floor, a six-over-six sash window is positioned to the left, while a six-panel door, incorporating reeded and raised panels with the upper two glazed, a lion’s mask knocker, and a four-pane overlight, is located to the right. The door is approached by pennant stone steps with cast iron lion footscrapers. A six-over-six sash window is present in the basement, alongside a 20th-century door set within an ashlar infill, replacing the original area steps. The ground floor features channelled rustication forming voussoirs over the window and door, a band course above, a Pompeian scroll frieze above the second floor, a moulded eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation includes a 20th-century window on the first floor, six-over-six sashes with stone sills on the second and third floors and a six-pane window and small single-storey extension to the ground floor.

The interior, documented by the Bath Preservation Trust in 2001, features ornate ceiling designs with convolvulus interspersed with trailing plants and a cantilevered stone staircase spanning the width of the house. Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped tops on painted bases.

Cavendish Place marked the first significant development on the lower slopes of Lansdown, beginning in 1808. Its westward-facing position capitalized on views over the surrounding common land, helping to delineate the city's expansion. Nos. 1 and 2 Cavendish Place represent a more modest design compared to Nos. 2-13, acting as a bridge between the existing houses in Park Street and Park Place and the more substantial new development facing Cavendish Road.