27, 28 AND 29, WALCOT BUILDINGS

A row of three late 18th-century houses with shops, located on the south side of London Road. They are part of a terrace that continues as Nos. 1-4 Weymouth Street. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar, with a hipped slate mansard roof featuring paired raking dormers and moulded stacks to the party walls. The arrangement is double depth.

Each house has three storeys and an attic, with a two-window front featuring paired plate glass sash windows. No. 27, the rightmost house, has a late 19th-century corner shop. This shop has a half-glazed door at the angle, with three panels and an overlight. It has a shop window with three panes to the left-hand side and two panes to the return, with a moulded fascia to both frontages. No. 28, the central house, has a door and overlight to the left. No. 29, the leftmost house, is slightly narrower with smaller windows; those on the first floor have a shared trellised balconette.

An early 19th-century shopfront, stepped slightly forward, exists to the left of the centre of No. 29. It has a lead-roofed canopy, a six-panel door and overlight, moulded sills to one plate glass window to the left and three to the right.

The interiors have not been inspected. The row, along with Weymouth Street, is shown on Harcourt Masters’s plan of Bath from 1793, and forms part of the arterial development of mid-Georgian Bath.