Nos. 23-30 (Consec) With Railings

This is a row of eight terraced houses, now shops, built around 1770, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. Numbers 28 to 30 were added around 1850 in a matching style. The materials are limestone ashlar with slate roofs.

The houses are three storeys high, with a basement, and feature a platband, moulded cornice, and blocking courses. The roofs are hipped and gabled. Numbers 23 to 27 have two or three windows to the upper floors, with the central window taller, set in chamfered reveals and featuring sash windows, some with glazing bars. The ground floor windows are single sashes. The front doors are of five or six fielded panels, with slab hoods supported by console brackets. Number 27 has a late 19th-century shop front. Number 23 has a return front to New King Street with a similar cornice, two upper-floor windows, three blind windows, one ground-floor window and a six-panel door within an engaged Doric column doorcase with a pediment. Numbers 28 to 30, the Victorian extension to the terrace, feature two windows each to the upper floors in flat-eared surrounds, with shop fronts on the ground floor. Number 28 has a modern shop front, but the original panelled house door remains. Number 29 has a Victorian shop front, double in width, with a panelled pilaster frame and console above the fascia, and a blind box over a stone dentil cornice. Number 30 has a splayed corner onto Monmouth Place with one window and a two-window return, and a similar shop front to number 29 with an entrance on the corner. Rear elevations have wrought ironwork, including some triple sash windows. The rear of number 27 includes a former wash house (now with a modern extension with a tiled roof); the south front of the ground floor has three round-headed windows, the central one being larger and featuring Gothic glazing in the top sash, alongside a single sash on the first floor.

Internal inspections of numbers 23 and 25 by Bath Council revealed original box shutters in number 23 and a staircase with Doric newels and colonnettes leading to the second floor, where fireplaces had been removed and replaced with a 20th-century fire. Number 25 features a hall with original arches and Doric pilasters, an original staircase with Doric newels, an elliptical arch in the front room, original fireplaces in the basement (one Tudor style), a carved stone fireplace on the first floor, and interconnecting doors on the second floor.

Across the frontage of numbers 23 to 26 are simple wrought iron railings on a stone kerb, marking the basement areas. Nos. 29 and 30 were designed by H.J. Garland, architect and surveyor, in 1892.