8, 9 And 10, Westgate Street

WESTGATE STREET 656-1/40/1838 (South side) Nos.8, 9 AND 10 05/08/75

GV II

Three terrace houses with shops. Early C19 with C20 additions. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, roofs not visible. EXTERIOR: Four storeys, each with a tripartite window to each floor (some variants at attic height). No.8 has four small twelve-pane above a triple eight:twelve:eight-pane, with similar at first floor, but middle sash without bars, and 1837 pilaster shopfront, in two and three panes, with two doors, and with single bay return to left. No.9 has attic storey small paired twelve-pane, with smaller eight-pane each side, added later, above eight:twelve:eight-pane to each of lower floors, and shopfront similar to No.8, but with broader panes, with door left, and to shop. Extension in same style, 1988, by Graham Finch. No.10 has paired plain sashes to attic, and tripartite plain sashes to lower levels, with poor C20 shopfront. Windows at first and second floors have raised plat surrounds, doubled at mullions, set to common sill, but at first floor to separate sills, with mullion and architrave lines carried down to cornice level of shopfronts, and with straight moulded cornice on brackets, left hand end broad quoin pilaster, but not repeated at other end. Above second floor moulded cornice, with further cavetto cornice with blocking course and parapet to attic level. Two ashlar stacks. Rear to block also in ashlar, with small cavetto cornice to rebuilt blocking course and parapet. No.8, which has slightly projecting stair turret, has Twelve-pane sashes at each level, with deep eighteen-pane sash to staircase. Nos.9 and 10 are slightly deeper, with glazing bar sashes to No.9 and plain to No.10, each also with inserted smaller lights. Ground floor level are various C20 extensions. INTERIORS: Not inspected. A handsome rebuilding of this long-established street, employing A Greek Revival-influenced style. SOURCES: Graham Finch, Bath City Council Shopfront Record, 1992.

Listing NGR: ST7496664765