2, Park Place

This is a house, built between 1810 and 1812, with 20th-century additions. It may have been designed by John Pinch the Elder. The front of the house is faced with limestone ashlar, now painted to the ground floor, while the rear is a combination of limestone ashlar and rubble. The roof is Welsh slate, with a coped verge on the right front and a hipped section to the right rear. There are two ashlar chimney stacks on the front, with four early clay pots.

The house is four storeys high, including a cellar, and has a symmetrical facade of one window. The first floor has a two-over-two, six-over-six, two-over-two pane sash window with broad timber mullions, set in a plain reveal with a stone sill. Similar windows are on the second and third floors; the third-floor window is a one-over-two, three-over-six, one-over-two-pane sash. The ground floor features a six-over-six pane sash window with horns, and a six-panel door with reeded and raised and fielded panels, topped by a decorative overlight both in plain reveals. A band course runs across the front, connecting with number 1 Park Place. Other external details include a moulded cornice above the second floor, a moulded eaves cornice, a coped parapet, and two wrought iron brackets that formerly supported a balcony beneath the first-floor window.

The rear elevation has six-over-six sash windows to each floor and to half landings, with a wrought iron balconette to the first floor. A 19th-century six-over-six pane sash window is on the ground floor, along with a half-glazed four-panel door and two small single-storey extensions.

The interior, as recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust, retains many original features. It has two rooms per floor, and a five-flight open cantilevered stone staircase with plain wooden balusters and a mahogany handrail. The hall has reeded architraves and an egg and dart cornice. The front ground-floor dining room contains a veined marble fireplace with lozenges in the corners, and reeded architraves to six-panel doors. The basement retains a cast iron range with a bread oven at the front, a stone-surround fireplace to the rear, and a back vault with a slate-lined water tank. The front first-floor drawing room has an egg and dart cornice, a fruit garland frieze, and reeded architraves to doors and windows; it also features a white and grey marble fireplace with a curved, reeded surround and paterae. A similar study is located on the rear first floor.

The house was likely built by Edmund Gunning, a carpenter. One of the first occupants was Mrs Vandeleur, who lived there in 1812.