Nos. 2 And 3 With Boundary Walls And Gate Piers

A pair of terrace houses, built around 1800-1804, possibly designed by Charles Harcourt Masters. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar, painted to the front, with slate roofs. They are double depth and arranged with a compact block, accessed from the south, but with the main elevation and garden facing north.

The houses are three storeys high, each with two windows. The windows are glazing bar sashes. The second floor has paired twelve-pane sashes, the first floor has three tripartite eight:twelve:eight pane sashes above paired sashes, and the ground floor features Venetian windows with three ten:fifteen:ten pane sashes. The ground floor also has a twelve-pane sash window, a glazed door within a pilaster doorcase with a pediment, paired twelve-pane sashes, and two pairs of casement glazed doors with transom lights. A platband, frieze, cornice, blocking course, and parapet run across the front. The right side has a hipped roof centred over three bays and a large central ashlar stack.

At the rear, No. 2 has narrow, three-storey parapeted wings flanking a recessed centre, with twelve-pane sashes and a panelled door in an arched opening with a plain fanlight. There’s a tall stair light. No. 3 has a similar wing to the right, featuring four-pane sashes and a panelled door within deep reveals, with a two-storey section set back and containing two four-pane sashes above a single window within a deeply splayed surround, and a boundary wall to the yard. Several stacks are present on this side.

The kitchen within No. 3, inspected by Bath Council in 1986, features flagged-stone floors and a cast iron oven. Victorian fireplaces are also present.

The north side has a full-width boundary wall constructed of regular coursed stone with a parapet, and paired gate piers with pyramidal cappings to No. 2 and a moulded capping to No. 3. A lower ashlar wall also returns at the party divisions. These houses are part of a long speculative row and retain substantial original detail, particularly to the north elevations.