27 Rivers Street and attached railings

This is a three-story, attic and basement terrace house dating from 1770 to 1775, significantly altered in the 20th century. It is part of the Rivers Street development by John Wood the Younger.

The front of the house is constructed from limestone ashlar, with rubble to the rear. It has a mansard roof covered with Welsh slate, a coped party wall to the left with a large ashlar stack, and rendered areas. The house is situated at an angle to the street, narrowing towards the rear and presenting a shallower plan than the adjacent properties, with a staircase facing the front.

The exterior features a two-window range. The first floor has two plate glass sash windows, the one on the right narrower to accommodate the staircase. These windows have fixed plate glass panes below, set within ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices. The windows have lowered, moulded stone sills supported on cut-down console brackets, with a cast iron window box front to the left. The second floor mirrors this design with similar sash windows in ovolo architraves with stone sills. The ground floor has a plate glass sash window to the left, a plain reveal, and a stone sill with a cast iron window box front. To the right is a six-panel door with a flush panel, a single glazed panel, and a pedimented Doric doorcase with a wrought iron foot-scraper attached. There are two pennant steps leading to a three-step approach to a pennant-paved crossover. The basement has a six/six-sash window to the left, a stone sill, a 20th-century half-glazed door, and two windows infilling beneath the crossover, with 20th-century area steps. A single dormer window has a plate glass sash. A band course runs over the ground floor, and a modillion cornice and coped parapet continue the design with No. 26 Rivers Street.

The interior has not been inspected.

Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped heads on limestone bases.

Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger across several parcels of land, acquired through leases and purchases from various owners including Sir Benet Garrard and Sir Peter Rivers Gay. Building leases and rate books, as well as Walter Ison's "The Georgian Buildings of Bath" provide further historical context.