No. 9 And Attached Railings

This is a house, later converted into flats, built around 1777, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Designed by John Wood the Younger, it demonstrates group value as part of a cohesive architectural landscape. The front of the building is faced with limestone ashlar, while the rear is rendered. It has a double-pile layout with a mansard roof covered in Welsh slate, and features two ashlar stacks with some original clay pots on the left side.

The house is three storeys high, with an attic, basement, and sub-basement, and has a three-window front. The first floor features three plate glass sash windows with splayed, ovolo moulded architraves, friezes, and cornices. These windows have lowered stone sills supported by console brackets with wrought iron balconettes. The second floor has three six/six sash windows, similarly detailed. The ground floor has two plate glass sash windows to the left, and a six-panel door with reeded and fielded panels, a cast iron lion’s mask knocker, and a stone doorcase with a moulded architrave and cornice on console brackets. A pennant-paved crossover with a cast iron footscraper leads to the door, alongside a small four/four sash window. Basement windows are six/six sashes, with a small opening leading to the sub-basement below one window. The front features a single and double dormer window with six/six sashes. Further detailing includes a band course above the ground floor, a modillion eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation shows four/four sash windows with wrought iron balconettes to the first floor, six/six sashes to the second floor and dormers, and plate glass horned sashes. A small, parapeted, rendered extension is also present at the rear.

The interior, inspected by Bath Council in 1986, retains some original features, including early 19th-century reeded marble fireplaces to the rear of the ground floor. White and grey marble fireplaces are found on the ground and first floors.

Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped heads on painted bases, along with a wrought iron overthrow that includes a lampholder with scrollwork decoration.

Information regarding this building is documented in "The Georgian Buildings of Bath" by W. Ison.