The Pulteney Arms

The Pulteney Arms comprises three terrace houses built between 1800 and 1806, with later alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The architect was John Pinch the Elder. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar with slate roofs; the roof is hipped on the right side, flat at the top with paired dormers, and has moulded stacks to the right party walls and returns.

The houses have double-depth plans and are three storeys high, with attics and basements. Nos. 35 and 36 each have three windows, while The Pulteney Arms (No. 37) has two windows to the first floor and three to the ground floor. The facades share a continuous returned parapet, cornice, upper floor sill bands, and plinth. No. 35 features 20th-century horned six/six-pane sash windows, and a first-floor window with a moulded architrave flanked by narrow pilasters with foliate caps supporting a frieze and pediment. Below it is a five-panel door that sweeps out to meet the plinth. A wide segmental arched recess with a former timber lintel (now concrete) shelters paired sash windows to the right of the ground floor. No. 36 has a similar timber lintel, and No. 37 has three flat arched recesses to its ground floor windows. A single-storey entrance block with a parapet, cornice, and banded rustication is located on the rear return in Sutton Street.

The rear of No. 37 is notable for a moulded architrave with stepped keystones and pilasters to the entablature and cornice over a five-panel door, accompanied by four blind windows on the upper floors. An inspection of No. 35 by Bath Council in 1975 revealed open-tread stone stairs with square wooden balusters, a fine cornice on the first floor, and a fine Art Nouveau fireplace surround on the third floor, with many original features remaining. The Pulteney Arms retains early gas light fittings above the bar.

The buildings predate the rest of Daniel Street and were constructed as part of the Great Pulteney Street development, appearing on a map of circa 1810. The 1809 Bath Directory records "The Pulteney Arms" as being situated "back of Sidney Place."