11-24, Upper Camden Place

Nos. 11-24 Upper Camden Place

Fourteen houses forming part of an irregular terrace of smaller houses stepped gradually upward from No. 11 to the left and set back above Camden Road. Built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with some designed by John Eveleigh. The limestone ashlar facades have double pitched slate roofs with moulded stacks to party walls. Each house is three storeys with attics and basements, has a low coped parapet, stopped cornice, and ground floor platband. Most retain plate glass sash windows and steps up to their doors.

The individual houses vary considerably in their details. No. 11, probably 18th century with a rubblestone plinth, was remodelled in the 19th century and has a two-window range with a 20th century dormer, paired windows to the second and first floors, and one window to the centre of the ground floor. To the left is an 18th century six-panel door glazed to the top, set in a painted stone pedimented doorcase with engaged Tuscan columns.

No. 12 is similar with a painted ground floor, six/six-pane tripartite sash windows to the upper floors, paired ground floor windows, and a set-back six-panel door glazed to the top to the left. No. 13 features sill bands, paired windows to the upper floors, and a painted ground floor with a bressummer below the sill band and plinth. It has a late 19th century canted bay with parapet and cornice to the ground floor right with radial glazing bars to a semicircular arched fanlight over the six-panel door.

No. 14 has tripartite windows to the upper floors, a painted platband and ground floor with paired windows to the right of an altered six-panel door. No. 15 is painted with a tripartite window to the second floor, a Venetian window to the first floor, paired windows to the ground floor right and a stripped-pine five-panel door to the left. No. 16 has tripartite windows to the upper floors and a five-panel door to the left glazed to the top, with a late 19th century canted bay to the ground floor right featuring a cast iron balustrade.

No. 17 displays tripartite windows to the upper floors, paired windows to the ground floor and four glazed upper panels to the six-panel door. No. 18 has paired windows to the upper floors and a canted bay to the right with a small central pediment and a six-panel door glazed to the top. No. 19 is set slightly back with a late 19th century canted oriel window to the second floor with a small window to the left, one first floor window with a simple balconette, one ground floor window and a 20th century porch and door to the left.

No. 20 has two windows to the second floor, one window to each of the first and ground floors, and a door and porch to the left, all of 20th century date. No. 21, slightly lower and set back, has a single window range with six/six-pane sash windows and a six-panel door to the left. It is creeper covered. No. 22 has tripartite windows to the upper floors, one window to the ground floor right and a simple porch with a hood on stone jambs over a six-panel door glazed to the top, above which is a semicircular arched fanlight with radial glazing bars.

No. 23 is a single window range with paired dormer windows in a late 19th century mansard roof, balconettes to the upper floor windows and a simple porch to a six-panel door with an overlight above the hood to the left. No. 24 is similar to No. 23, with trellised balconettes, a three-pane overlight and a four-panel door.

Parts of this terrace, designed as "Sion Row" by John Eveleigh, were developed for the attorney John Jelly and appear on Harcourt Masters's 1793 plan of Bath. The financial crash of 1793 halted the project and the remaining houses were probably not built until after 1815.