9 Rivers Street and attached railings

Terrace house, now divided into flats. Built 1770–1775, designed by John Wood the Younger, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries.

The building is constructed of limestone ashlar to front and rear, with the front painted up to first-floor level. It has a double pile parapeted mansard roof with Welsh slate to the front and double Roman tiles to the upper slope of the rear, with Welsh slate to the lower slope. The party wall to the right is coped with two ashlar stacks topped with early clay pots. The staircase is positioned at the front.

The exterior comprises three storeys with an attic and basement. The front has three windows. The first floor contains three 19th-century two-light timber mullion and transom casement windows in splayed reveals, lowered and fitted with a continuous balcony with moulded edge on a stone deck supported by cast iron brackets and wrought iron balustrade. Evidence of a former tent roof remains. The second floor has three plate glass sashes in plain reveals with stone sills. The ground floor features two two-over-two sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills to the right, and to the left a six-panel door with flush moulded and glazed panels and a cast iron lion's mask knocker, set in a painted pedimented Doric doorcase with one pennant step, with a further step to a pennant-paved crossover containing a cast iron foot-scraper. The basement has one plate glass sash in a splayed reveal with stone sill and a half-glazed door under the crossover, with no area steps. A double dormer with plate glass sashes crowns the facade.

A band course runs over the ground floor, and a modillion cornice with coped parapet continues across to No. 8 Rivers Street. A lead downpipe to the left is shared with No. 8 Rivers Street.

The rear elevation, partially visible, features a full-width full-height bay with 19th and 20th-century windows to the first floor, three two-over-two sashes to the second floor, and a double dormer with plate glass sashes.

The interior was not inspected.

Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads are mounted on limestone bases.

Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger across three separate land parcels. Numbers 1–11 were constructed in conjunction with Catharine Place on ground conveyed by perpetual leasehold from Sir Benet Garrard to Wood and Brock as trustee on 19–20 December 1766. Numbers 16–28 and 36–47 were built on ground conveyed from the Rivers Estate (owned by Sir Peter Rivers Gay) to Wood on 5 March 1768 for 99 years. Numbers 28–35 were constructed in conjunction with Russell Street on ground purchased by John Wood and Andrew Sproule as trustee from Thomas and Daniel Omer on 30 December 1768 on perpetual freehold rents. The strip of ground on which Numbers 12–15 and 48–50 were built was probably never acquired by Wood. The sites of Numbers 12–15 were conveyed from the Rivers Estate to Thomas and James Beale on 30 December 1774 and 16 October 1776 on perpetual freehold rents. Various Bath builders implemented Wood's overall design.