4, North Parade

NORTH PARADE No.4 (Formerly Listed as: NORTH PARADE Nos.2-6 (Consec)) 10/06/50

GV II*

House, now office. 1740, restored late C20. By John Wood the Elder. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three windows wide. Platband at first floor level. Ground floor has eight-panel door in plain architrave, two six/six sash windows of late C18 type. Wrought iron area railings, basement has two nine/six-sashes. First floor has three sashes as above but with dropped sills, six/nine, and with corniced heads, plain architraves. Second floor six/six with plain architraves. Dentil cornice, parapet, mansard roof, three flat topped dormers, with three/six sashes. Ashlar ridge stack to right with pots. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Decorative plasterwork to stairs includes a moulded ceiling panel over the rounded half-landing to the stairs (illus. In Ison, pl 120a). No. 4: see Ison, plate 120a for photograph of enriched plaster ceiling to semi-circular apse on first half landing. HISTORY: Part of John Wood's uncompleted scheme for the Abbey Orchard, 1740-1748. SOURCES: Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: London: 1948-: 145; 910; Mowl T and Earnshaw B: John Wood Architect of Obsession: Bath: 1988-: 135-147.

Listing NGR: ST7521764679