88, Walcot Street

WALCOT STREET 656-1/31/1800 (East side) No.88

(Formerly Listed as: WALCOT STREET (East side) No.88 and St Michael with St Paul Church House) 05/08/75

GV II

Rooms to right of St Michael's Church House (qv) and part of same building. 1904. By Wallace Gill. MATERIALS: Random-sized limestone ashlar with wide pointing, double Roman tile roof. PLAN: Double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Gabled two storey front with mullioned eight-light window to first floor. Leaded windows with coloured glass. Coped forward-facing gable with simple stone finial has inverted semicircular dips to eaves over ornamented rainwater heads and downpipes, slit window to apex, four-light stone mullioned and transomed window to first floor, two moulded string courses over two two-light windows to ground floor right and three small leaded overlight windows to semi-elliptical arch and double doors. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Now converted to architects' studios. With St Michael's Church House, this building forms an unusual interlude in an Arts and Crafts-influenced style, drawing on Cotswold vernacular buildings for inspiration. Although similar overall, its inspirations are more secular than those of the adjoining church hall, denoting its different function. SOURCES: Neil Jackson, Nineteenth Century Bath. Architects and Architecture (1991), 239-41.

Listing NGR: ST7508265288