6-19, Henrietta Street

Fifteen terrace houses forming part of a larger terrace on the west side of Henrietta Street, built between 1795 and 1800 to the design of Thomas Baldwin.

The houses are constructed in limestone ashlar with double pitched slate mansard roofs featuring dormers and moulded stacks set against the party walls. Each property has a double depth plan. The terrace comprises three storeys with attics and basements. Most houses have a three-window range, with the exception of numbers 15 to 18, which display a five-window range. The facades are articulated with a moulded coped parapet, cornice and lintel frieze that sweep down at the right of each pair, with moulded pilasters separating the pairs. Moulded sill string courses mark the upper floors, and ground floor platbands are stepped down in pairs. The ground floor features semicircular arcaded recesses with impost string courses, below which sit two rusticated courses. Originally all windows were six/six-pane sash windows with crown glass and radial glazing bars to the semicircular arched ground floor windows. Doors were raised and fielded six-panel examples with cobweb fanlights above.

Individual houses show varying degrees of alteration and retention. No.6 has a paired dormer and predominantly plate glass sash windows, though the ground floor retains original upper sashes. The door is positioned to the right, paired with No.7, above which sits a small stack probably serving the heated entrance halls. No.7 is virtually unaltered except for splayed reveals to the ground floor, with dormers to left and paired dormer to right. No.8 is similar to No.7. No.9 displays similar dormers, plate glass sash windows, splayed reveals to the ground floor, and retains six/six-pane sashes to the basement with a cobweb fanlight over its six-panel door glazed to the top. A bronze plaque on No.9 records that Sir Charles Napier lived here from 1836 to 1838. No.10 has six/six-pane sash windows to paired dormers with painted splayed reveals to plate glass sash windows, fine trellised balconettes to the first floor and a plain fanlight. No.11 has a paired dormer, painted splayed reveals to plate glass sash windows and a plain fanlight. No.11 now functions as the Kennard Hotel. No.12 is similar to No.11 but with a cobweb fanlight. No.13 has a triple dormer with six/six-pane sash windows to the second floor and basement, painted splayed reveals to plate glass sash windows to the first and ground floors, and retains its original door and fanlight. No.14 has two paired and one single dormer, six/six-pane sash windows to the second floor, plate glass sashes to the main floors and eight/eight-pane sashes to the basement, with its original door to the right glazed to the top with a plain fanlight. No.15 has a symmetrical five-window range with one paired dormer, painted splayed reveals to plate glass sash windows with tall eight/eight-pane sashes to the basement, and an original central door with plain fanlight. No.16 has a five-window range with one single and one paired dormer, plate glass sash windows and an original door to the right with cobweb fanlight. No.17 has a five-window range with three double dormers, similar to No.16 with splayed reveals to the ground floor. No.18 has a symmetrical five-window range with a single central dormer flanked by paired dormers, plate glass sash windows, a central door and plain fanlight. No.19, the right-hand terminal house, has a roof hipped to the left, paired stacks to the right party wall, two dormers to the front and one to the right return. It features plate glass sash windows, painted splayed reveals to the ground floor and a full depth single storey porch to the right with coped parapet and cornice at platband level. The original door and cobweb fanlight are retained. The five-window right return contains many blind windows. A two-storey parapeted block stands to the rear. No.19A has its entrance via a six-panel door in the return.

Interior inspections, where carried out, reveal original features. No.7 (inspected in 1978) retains original double doors to the inner hall with a modern fanlight above, a segmental plaster vault to the first floor landing with Greek stained glass fanlight depicting four female figures, an original dresser and a sunken copper in the basement. No.8 retained many of its original and Victorian features. No.12 has a Regency fanlight over the hall and Georgian cornicing. No.19 (inspected in 1986) had retained many original features.

This terrace forms part of the notable development of the Pulteney Estate east of the river. Henrietta Street was the most substantial of the subsidiary roads to develop and was originally intended to connect Laura Place with a proposed development named Frances Square to the north, a plan which was not proceeded with. This section of the street does not appear as built on Chantry's plan of Bath dated 1793. No.7 served as the architect's office of H.E. Goodridge between 1829 and 1864, and subsequently of his son A.S. Goodridge between 1864 and 1914.