No. 9 And Attached Railings

This is a house, built circa 1771-1773, now used as flats. It was designed by John Wood the Younger and forms part of Russell Street, which he developed along with the Assembly Rooms and Rivers Street, on land previously known as Holdstock’s Garden or Russell’s Close.

The house is constructed of limestone ashlar to the front, with rubble to the plinth of the basement. The rear elevation is not visible. It is a three-storey building with an attic and basement, featuring a double-pile, parapeted mansard roof covered with Welsh slate to the front. The right-hand side has a coped party wall with two ashlar stacks, incorporating some early clay pots. The front has a three-window arrangement. The first floor contains three plate glass sash windows with ovolo moulded architraves, splayed jambs, friezes, cornices, lowered moulded stone sills, and cut-down console brackets supporting wrought iron balconettes. The second floor has three similar plate glass sash windows with stone sills. The ground floor features two plate glass sash windows to the right, with plain reveals and splayed jambs with sills, and a six-panel door to the left. The door has a flush beaded and fielded lower panel with a single glazed upper panel, set within a cyma moulded architrave with console brackets supporting a moulded cornice. There are two steps leading to a Pennant paved crossover with diagonally set paving. The basement has two six/six-sash windows with stone sills, a 20th-century half-glazed door under the crossover, and 20th-century area steps. Two dormers with six/six-sash windows are visible in the roof. Other details include a band course over the ground floor, a modillion eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation is not visible.

The interior has not been inspected. Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped heads on reconstituted stone bases. Deeds relating to the property are held in the Bath City Record Office.