7 And 8, Springfield Place

A pair of houses dating from around 1820, originally symmetrical but subsequently altered. They are built of painted limestone ashlar with an unseen roof and moulded chimney stacks to the party wall. The houses have a double-depth plan and a basement.

The main two-storey block has a returned coped parapet that steps up at the corners and rises centrally to form a pediment. There is a cornice and a ground floor platband; a blind window is set into the party wall of the first floor, with a segmental arched recess. Balconettes are positioned in front of the windows. Number 7, on the left, now features plate glass sash windows and a two-storey, slightly projecting wing on its left side, sharing sills with the paired windows. The cornice and platband continue across this wing, and a late 19th-century door has a bolection moulding with five panels, glazed to the top, and is set under a swept hood supported by scrolled timber brackets. Number 8 retains vertical glazing bars to its two-over-two-pane sash windows. A coped, lean-to, single-storey wing set back from the main facade has a fine cast iron trellis supporting a swept canopy in the angle, and pelmets to the windows. The original front door of Number 8 has reeded lintels and jambs, with roundels in blocks to the upper corners.

The interior includes cornices, turned newel posts and a mahogany rail to the closed-string staircase, moulded architraves to six-panel doors, and a mid-19th century half-glazed door with decorative stained glass to two Gothic-arched lights.

These houses are part of a highly characteristic Regency suburban development demonstrating the influence of the Greek Revival style on Bath's domestic architecture.