42, 44 AND 46, UPPER EAST HAYES

656-1/18/2482 12/06/50

UPPER EAST HAYES Nos.42, 44 AND 46

GV II

House, now three dwellings to east of irregular terrace on hillside to north of London Road. Late C18 centre block with later C19 and C20 additions. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, roof unseen to Nos 42 and 46, Welsh slate to No.44. EXTERIOR: Two storeys and lower ground floor, symmetrical three-window front. Coped parapet, cornice and stepped cornice band, ground floor platband. South garden front has central canted bay with six/six-pane sash windows flanked by tripartite six/six-pane sashes. French windows to ground floor. Roof not visible, but ashlar stacks with pots. Centre of parapet of east return sweeps up to piers flanking large recessed rectangular panel. Below six/six sash to centre and right with blind recessed panel to left. Ground floor has door and six/six sash. Rear facing street has C20 extensions, windows and doors. Modern door up flight of steps with iron balustrade. No.44 rear service wing onto street. Two storeys with hipped slate roof, fronts connecting wing through to main house. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: A house with canted bay to the garden front is shown on Harcourt Masters's 1793 plan of Bath. despite considerable alteration, the pair remains part of a distinctive development of edge-of-town villas, built to take advantage of the southward prospect over Bath, with their main elevational treatment on the south (garden) side.

Listing NGR: ST7570966211