Bath High School Hope House

Hope House, now Bath High School, is a mansion house built in 1790, with 20th-century alterations, designed by John Palmer. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a hipped slate roof that is flat at the top with 20th-century dormers. The building has a square plan, with a four-window stepped forward block on the east facade facing Lansdown Road and full-height segmental bows on the south and west fronts, although the east front includes 20th-century additions.

The exterior consists of two storeys with an attic at the street front and three storeys on the other sides. The street-facing facade has a four-window arrangement and is surrounded by a parapet with balustraded panels and moulded coping, a modillion cornice, a lintel frieze, and a ground floor platband. On the Lansdown front, there are six-over-six pane sash windows with balconettes on the first floor, six-over-six panes on the ground floor, and a blind window to the left. The central doorcase features reeded edges and a segmental arched stone roof supported by walls with thin engaged Tuscan columns, leading to double three-panel doors and a segmental-arched overlight. The single window set back in the side wings has six-over-six pane sash windows on the first floor. To the left, there is a single-storey infill with a cornice and blocking course over a blind window, while to the right, there is a two-storey infill with a coped parapet and cornices on the first and ground floors, also with a blind window. The five-window west front rises from a rusticated lower ground floor plinth with radial voussoirs to the windows and central 20th-century double doors. The upper floors of the bow have three windows with balconettes. The south front is similar in design. The interior has not been inspected.