9 And 10, Henrietta Villas

HENRIETTA VILLAS 656-1/0/0

Nos.9 AND 10 (Formerly Listed as: HENRIETTA ROAD Nos 9 and 10 Henrietta Villas) 05/08/75

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses. c1840 with C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, shallow pitched hipped slate roof with wide eaves and double moulded stack to party wall. PLAN: Double depth plans. EXTERIOR: Three storeys with semi-basements, each house has one-window range. Rusticated pilasters to quoins and party wall, moulded eared architraves to windows, margin paned two/two-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars, tripartite to ground floor. Returned sill bands with projecting sills to upper floors, cornices to lower floors, those to ground floor on fluted consoles, plinth. Rear part of houses slightly wider with coped parapets and cornices to enclosed porches with six-panel doors and overlights. No.9 to left has double depth two storey porch with window to first floor, plate glass sash windows and canopy over C20 six-panel door. No.10 has single storey porch with panelled parapet, four-panel door with margin paned overlight. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: The road lies along the route of the old footpath connecting Bath and Bathwick. Originally this area was earmarked for a major development called Frances Square (marked on Chantry¿s plan of 1793, and on Donne¿s plan of 1810). After a substantial delay this suburban development, greatly reduced in density, was proceeded with in a characteristic Late Georgian manner. The villas are shown on Cotterell¿s 1851 plan of Bath, and are recorded as being "newly erected" in the Bath Guide for 1853. No.10 is recorded as having alterations by WJ Willcox in 1895 (drawing in Crozier-Cole collection).

Listing NGR: ST7536665380