Abbey View House, With Boundary Wall And Gate Piers

Abbey View House is a villa located at the end of a terrace, built around 1864. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a slate roof. The building has a compact square plan with a symmetrical front and includes a 20th-century single-storey addition that adjoins the road, topped with a flat-pitched roof and deep eaves.

The exterior consists of three storeys set on a high base, with three plain sash windows. The central pair of windows has arched lights above, while the ground floor features a single light on each side of a square porch. The porch has an arched opening leading to glazed doors on a short flight of steps, with small arched lights on the sides, all fitted with margin panes. The added pavilion on the left has a hipped slate roof and a wide triple glazed opening at the front, supported by pilasters. The right return has two sash windows on each floor, and there are two ashlar chimney stacks.

The interior has not been inspected. A notable feature is the ashlar boundary wall attached to the front of the pavilion, which runs down the hill to connect with the parapet wall of the canal bridge. This wall has saddle-back coping with a roll-top and an iron gate beneath horizontal coping that follows the slope of the hill, standing at approximately 2.1 meters high. Near the right end of the wall, it curves back in shallow concave quadrants to a pair of square piers with deep moulded caps and double blockings. A plank door is located at the right end of the wall.

Historically, the house faces north towards the city center and serves as a lower stop to Abbey View Terrace. Its masonry suggests it may have been built later than the terrace, which first appears in the Bath Directory for 1866-1867.