No. 1 and Attached Railings

No. 1 and Attached Railings, Catharine Place

A house, now converted into flats, built circa 1777-1784 by John Wood the Younger. It occupies the south-east corner of Catharine Place, where it breaks forward slightly to form a terminating pavilion to the terrace. The building has undergone significant alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries, including refacing of the front elevation in limestone ashlar following bomb damage in the Second World War.

The main front facing Catharine Place is three storeys with an attic and basement, arranged as a four-window range. The first and second floor windows are plate glass horned sashes in splayed ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and moulded cornices over and moulded stone sills on console brackets; to the right of each floor is a single plate glass horned sash in a plain reveal with stone sill. The ground floor contains four plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills. The basement has three 20th-century windows in plain reveals with stone sills, and a plank door with single pane overlight. Pennant area steps with a 20th-century handrail provide access. A band course runs above the ground floor and continues across the set-back portion to the right. The roofline features a modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet, with the upper mouldings of the cornice continued to the right section only.

The right side elevation serves as the entrance front. The first and second floors each have two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, alongside small ventilation grilles. The ground floor has one similar sash, a two-pane window, and a ventilation grille, with a six-panel door featuring flush beaded and fielded panels, a single pane overlight, and three concrete steps set within a pedimented Doric doorcase. A plinth runs along this elevation, continued to a blind wall of a single-storey rear extension. A moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet repeat from the front.

The building materials include refaced limestone ashlar to the front, rubble and coursed squared stone to the basement, and refaced ashlar to the right flank wall; the rear is of ashlar and rubble. The roof is a double pile parapeted mansard, hipped to the right, with Welsh slate covering to front and rear. Two ashlar stacks to the rear roof retain some early clay pots. The plan interlocks with No. 2 Catharine Place, with four windows on the front and seven on the rear elevation.

The rear elevation features 20th-century metal casement windows and a lead hopperhead and downpipe. The top floor flat, inspected by Bath Council in 1993, has been completely modernised except for an 18th-century fireplace in the rear room.

Attached iron railings and a gate with pointed heads on limestone bases form part of the listed structure.