3-11, Miles'S Buildings

A terrace of nine houses at Nos. 3-11, built between 1760 and 1770 and altered in the early 19th century. The design is by John Wood the Younger. The facades are of limestone ashlar, with coursed rubble to the rear, and have double-pitched slate mansard roofs with moulded stacks to the party walls.

The houses are three storeys high with attics and basements, sharing a continuous coped parapet and cornice which is slightly returned to the left. A ground floor platband and plinth are present. Originally, the windows were six/six-pane sashes with six-panel doors, many of the doors glazed to the top, and sheltered by shallow hoods on consoles. The rear elevations originally had tripartite windows to the upper floors; some now have added attic storeys or full-height canted bays.

The windows and doors have undergone various changes. No. 3 has a single window range with thick glazing bars to the upper floors, with a Venetian first-floor window featuring Gothic glazing bars, and an eight/eight-pane sash at ground floor. No. 4 has a single window range with thick glazing bars to the second floor, plate glass sashes to the Venetian first-floor window, and two windows with splayed reveals to the ground floor, with a pediment over a five-panel door glazed to the top. No. 5 has a single window range with thick glazing bars to the tripartite upper-floor windows, splayed reveals to a six/six-pane sash to the left of the door. No. 6 retains an early 19th-century restored balcony with trellised supports and swept canopy, ornamented with lead railings. The centre of the former tripartite window has been replaced with margin-pane French windows. No. 7 has a two-window range with painted ground floor and splayed reveals to six/six-pane sash windows. No. 8 is similar, with painted ground floor and reveals. No. 9 has an added attic storey with two three/six-pane sash windows; the lintel of a second-floor window has been raised, cutting into the cornice, and the ground floor is painted with splayed reveals. No. 10 has plate glass windows and an altered roof to enlarge the attic, with painted splayed reveals and a six/six-pane sash to the right of the ground floor. No. 11, the terminal house, has a similarly enlarged attic with paired six/six-pane sashes to dormers; six/six-pane sashes to the upper floors, and an eight/eight-pane sash to the ground floor left.

The interiors were not inspected, but No. 6 was recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust in 1994, revealing a cantilevered wooden staircase with a mahogany rail and turned newel, along with other original features. No. 11 was recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust in 1993, also demonstrating the survival of many original features.