Ensleigh House

Ensleigh House is a detached house dating from around 1860, as evidenced by early appearances in Bath directories. Constructed of coursed, quarry-faced rubble with ashlar dressings, all in limestone, it has a Welsh slate roof. The house is a picturesque villa with projecting wings, built in a severe Italianate style.

The entrance front features a panelled door to the left, above which is a rectangular light and a small pedimented hood supported by brackets. This is flanked by two-over-two sash windows in dressed frames, with similar windows on the floor above. The central section projects forward under a gabled roof, showcasing rusticated quoins with large bracketed capitals. It has four two-over-two sash windows on the ground floor, followed by three arched-head windows on the first floor, and two similar arched-head windows on the second floor. A service wing extends to the right, featuring a window and chimneystack.

The garden elevation showcases a wing to the left with a two-storey canted bay containing plain sashes. A forward wing exhibits a square bay on the ground floor with tripartite plain sashes, stone mullions above a smaller basement window, and single windows in the returns. A balustraded roof forms a balcony for the first-floor Venetian window, incorporating a roundel in the gable. Between the wings, an eight-by-six window conservatory has an altered roofline. A tall, rusticated stack with weathering is situated above this. Another wing to the right displays paired plain sashes. The roof features bracketed eaves cornices, bargeboarded gables, and stone copings.

Internally, inspected by Bath Council in 1981, the house retains a Victorian staircase with moulded treads. A black marble fireplace is found in the dining room, along with several other Victorian fireplaces throughout.