41a, Great Pulteney Street

Twelve terrace houses, forming the north-eastern terminal of Great Pulteney Street, built in the late 18th century between 1788 and 1793. The design is attributed to Thomas Baldwin, John Eveleigh, and other architects. The construction uses limestone ashlar, with a double-pitched slate roof, hipped to the left side and featuring moulded stacks on the right party wall. The roof terminates in a coped right wall.

The houses are arranged with a double-depth plan, and have three storeys, an attic, and a basement. The three-window range extends to three sides. The Great Pulteney Street facade is stepped forward and largely mirrors the appearance of numbers 42 to 52. A returned parapet, cornice, and lintel frieze are present, alongside sill bands to the first and second floors, and a platband to the ground floor. The ground floor is rusticated with flat arches featuring radial voussoirs. The windows are six-over-six sash windows. The central window on the first floor is semicircular arched with radial glazing bars, flanked by consoles supporting a cornice and frieze with a double festoon in the centre and paterae to the sides. Three windows are visible on the ground floor.

The left-hand return is canted and features a moulded coping to the parapet, cornice, and lintel frieze, along with second and first floor sill bands and a ground floor platband that is returned to the rear facade on Sydney Place. The ground floor has banded pilasters, and the central window on the first floor is similarly designed to that on the front facade but with a plain frieze. A porch, likely dating from the 19th century, has banded rustication, a cornice, a blocking course, and a triglyph frieze, stepped forward and supported by engaged Tuscan columns. The porch features an eight-panel door, glazed to the top. The rear elevation has blind windows on the right-hand range.

The interior has not been inspected in the basement areas. Great Pulteney Street is part of the late 18th-century development of the Bathwick estate, and is noted for its unusually generous width of 100 feet, making it one of the most imposing urban developments in Britain. Robert Adam prepared initial designs in 1782, but Thomas Baldwin was responsible for the final design; leases were granted from 1788, but construction was delayed by a building crash in the mid-1790s, suggesting these houses were built during a later phase of development.