36, Rivers Street

RIVERS STREET 656-1/30/1410 (South side) 11/08/72 No.36

GV II

End of terrace house, comprising later infill in otherwise complete street. c1805. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, Render to rear. Welsh Slate parapeted mansard roof, artificial slate to rear, with coped verges and stack with upper part rebuilt in reconstituted stone with early clay pots to left. PLAN: Single depth plan with staircase to right. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, two-window front. First floor has to left two/two, six/six, two/two triple sash with timber mullions in plain reveal with stone sill, to right similar six/six-sash. Second floor has similar triple and single sashes to left and right. Ground floor has similar triple sash to left, to right six-panel door with flush reeded and glazed panels with pennant step in beaded plain reveal. Basement has two six/six-sashes in plain reveals with heads of windows above pavement level and grating in pavement. Double dormer with six/six-sashes. Shallow plinth, band course over ground floor, dentil eaves cornice and coped parapet. Rear elevation partially visible: six/six-sashes to first floor and second floor and in double dormer, small C20 window to second floor centre left and C20 rooflight in mansard. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger on three parcels of land: Nos. 1-11 constructed in conjunction with Catharine Place on ground conveyed on perpetual leasehold from Sir Benet Garrard to Wood and Brock as his trustee 19/20 December 1766. Nos. 16-28 and 36-47 Rivers Street with areas behind Nos. 46 and 47 on ground conveyed from Rivers Estate (owned by Sir Peter Rivers Gay) to Wood 5 March 1768 for 99 years. Nos. 28-35 Rivers Street were constructed in conjunction with Russell Street on ground bought by John Wood and Andrew Sproule as his trustee from Thomas and Daniel Omer 30 December 1768 on perpetual freehold rents. The strip of ground on which Nos 12-15 and 48-50 Rivers Street were constructed was probably never acquired by Wood. The sites of Nos. 12-15 were conveyed from the Rivers Estate to Thomas and James Beale on 30 December 1774 and 16 October 1776 on perpetual freehold rents. A number of different Bath builders were responsible for implementing Wood's overall design, re Ison. The precise date of this property is obtained from the 'Abstract of title of Sir J F Rivers ... to property sold 1856': Bath City Archives, DEED PKT 2379 & MAPS. SOURCES: Building leases and rate books; Walter Ison, `The Georgian Buildings of Bath¿ (2nd ed. 1980), 233.

Listing NGR: ST7480265427