1-7, Beaufort West

Nos. 1-7 Beaufort West is an irregular row of seven houses that steps uphill from the left. The buildings date from the late 18th century, with late 19th-century alterations. They are constructed of limestone ashlar and feature double-pitched slate roofs, each with three hand-thrown pots on the moulded stacks at the party walls. The houses are double depth, with staircases located to the left and at the rear.

The row stands three storeys high, with parapets and cornices. No. 1, on the left, has an 1874 shop front designed by J Elkington Gill, which is now used as offices. Above the shop front, there are five windows. The outer bays feature paired six/six pane sash windows, while there is one blind window on the inside left of the second floor. The late 19th-century shop front is arcaded and is enhanced by pilasters with Composite capitals.

No. 2 has a six-panel door with an overlight. No. 3 features a tripartite sash window on both upper floors and a six-panel door with an overlight. No. 4 has three eight/eight pane sashes on the second floor and one plate glass sash window on both lower floors, along with a six-panel door with an overlight. No. 5 includes a first-floor sill band and a ground-floor platband, with chamfered architraves around the plate glass sash windows. The first-floor windows have balconettes, and there is a stepped semicircular arch above a plain fanlight and an early 19th-century six-panel door to the left.

No. 6 has a two-window range with plate glass sash windows, the first-floor windows featuring early 19th-century balconettes. It also has a door similar to that of No. 5, accompanied by a cobweb fanlight. No. 7 is similar to No. 6 and has late 19th-century horned six/six pane sash windows.

The interiors were not inspected, but No. 5 has been recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust to have a stone cantilevered staircase with three turned banisters per tread and a twelve-pane landing window, along with some original plasterwork and joinery.

Historically, the land for this row was sold by John Bragg to Charles Dunning and David Tanner in 1791, who were required to erect dwellings by 1815. No. 5 was built by Robert Vaughan, a builder from Bathwick.