24A AND 24-35, BROCK STREET

Twelve terrace houses on the north side of Brock Street, built between 1763 and 1770 by John Wood the Younger. The building leases for numbers 30 to 35 date from 1763 to 1767, while those for numbers 24 to 29 date from 1767 to 1770. The terrace has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The houses are constructed in limestone ashlar with double pitched slate mansard roofs, each roof featuring two dormers and moulded chimney stacks that sit upon coped party walls and left gable ends. The buildings are three storeys with attics and basements. Numbers 24 to 29 have a single window range, while numbers 30 to 35 have two window ranges. A continuous coped parapet is returned to the left over the gable ends, with a returned modillion cornice.

The upper storeys display tripartite windows to the second floors, Venetian windows to the first floors, and ground floor platbands. Number 24A is the left terminal, positioned slightly to the rear of the main terrace with splayed jambs to plate glass sash windows on the upper floors and a moulded cornice. The cornice is returned into Margaret's Buildings towards a 19th-century shop. The right-hand upper floor windows of the return are blind, those to the left have horizontal glazing bar sashes.

Number 25 has six-over-six pane sash windows to the upper floors. The ground floor was altered in the 19th century and brought slightly forward, with a cornice on paired consoles articulating shouldered-arched recesses with keystones over two enlarged six-over-six pane sash windows. To the right is a set-back door and overlight in a plain opening.

Number 26 is painted to the ground floor with painted reveals to plate glass sash windows. To the right is a five-panel door glazed to the top in a pedimented doorcase with engaged Ionic columns. Number 27 is similar to number 26 except for a plain opening and margin-paned overlight with coloured glass to the door.

Number 28 has six-over-six pane sash windows to the second floor. The Venetian first floor window has been replaced with a horned plate glass tripartite sash window with a balconette. A six-panel door and margin-pane lover light are set to the right. In the mid-19th century, altered around 1925, a projecting canted shop window was added with a cornice up to the first floor sill over the fascia, and a set-back central half-glazed door.

Number 29 has a two window range. Splayed reveals frame a two-over-two pane tripartite window to the second floor, with two plate glass sash windows with balconettes to the first floor and six-over-six pane sashes to the ground floor. A modillion cornice and fluted frieze with paterae to the centre and sides ornament the area over a six-panel door to the right.

Numbers 30 to 35 have moulded architraves to the upper floors, with those to the first floor featuring cornices. Number 30 is painted to the ground floor with six-over-six pane sash windows in splayed reveals; those to the first floor have balconettes, and those to the ground floor have horns. A five-panel door to the right is glazed to the top with an overlight and Ionic columns supporting an entablature.

Number 31 is similar to number 30 with scrolled balconettes to the first floor and an ornate four-panel door with a tall overlight to the right. A mid-19th-century projecting shop to the left has a modillion and dentil cornice on paired fluted consoles up to the first floor sills, with a set-back half-glazed central door.

Number 32 has horizontal glazing bars to two-over-two pane sash windows on the upper floors, those to the first floor with balconettes. Splayed reveals frame plate glass sash windows to the ground floor, with an early 19th-century six-panel door to the right featuring inverted corners to the upper panels and a margin-paned overlight.

Number 33 is painted to the ground floor with painted sills, and the architraves to the second floor have been removed. Horned plate glass sash windows are fitted, those to the first floor with splayed reveals. An eight-panel door to the right has a raised semicircular arched surround and a plain fanlight.

Number 34 has six-over-six pane sash windows to the second floor with splayed reveals framing horned plate glass sashes to the first floor. The door is similar to that of number 33 but features a cobweb fanlight to the right. A shop surround dating from around 1870 with a 1924 window designed by E. R. Ketchings has a cornice to the fascia, moulded pilasters, a set-back half-glazed door and overlight, and moulded sills on a panelled plinth over plate glass shop windows.

Number 35 has two horned six-over-six pane sash windows to the second floor and one to the ground floor, with nine-over-nine pane sashes to the first floor. An 1884 projecting shop by Bartram and Son, Builders, has a moulded cornice to the fascia, panelled pilasters and plinth, and a bolection-moulded four-panel door and overlight. Number 36 forms the right terminal to the corner of the Circus.

The interior of number 29 was recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust in 1995, which noted a cantilevered stone staircase with decorative cast iron rails, dentil cornices, and Regency mahogany alcove cupboards flanking the fireplace in the dining room. Number 29 is believed to have been the Bath residence of the noted painter Joseph Wright during his stay in Bath from 1775 to 1777. Number 24A was listed separately on 11th August 1972.