11 Rivers Street and attached railings

This is a three-storey, attic, and basement terrace house at number 11 Rivers Street, now used as flats, constructed between 1770 and 1775 by John Wood the Younger. It was originally part of a larger development.

The front of the house is faced with limestone ashlar, painted on the ground floor, with rubble construction visible below the basement windows and at the rear. The roof is a mansard design with a Welsh slate front slope and double Roman slate on the upper slope and Welsh slate on the lower section, along with a coped party wall to the right containing two ashlar stacks topped with early clay pots.

The front elevation features three windows per floor. The first floor has plate glass sash windows with lowered stone sills and wrought iron balconettes set within splayed reveals. The second floor mirrors this design. The ground floor has two sash windows and a six-panel door with flush, fielded and glazed panels, set within a pedimented Doric doorcase with two steps leading to a pennant-paved crossover with a wrought iron foot-scraper. The basement has two plate glass sash windows and a plank door with a five-pane overlight, both within ashlar surrounds and accompanied by a wrought iron foot-scraper. A double dormer is present with two plate glass sashes and partially remaining moulded architrave. A band course runs above the ground floor, and a modillion cornice and coped parapet are continuous with the adjacent number 10 Rivers Street. The rear elevation includes a wrought iron balconette on the first floor and a render-faced lavatory extension.

The interior was not inspected during the listing assessment.

Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate, set on limestone bases, with shaped heads.

Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger across several parcels of land, with number 11 constructed on land conveyed on perpetual leasehold. Other sections of the street were developed using land from different sources and under varying lease arrangements. Various Bath builders were involved in implementing Wood’s design. The construction is documented in building leases, rate books, and Walter Ison’s "The Georgian Buildings of Bath."