36, Rivers Street

This is an early 1800s end-of-terrace house, forming an infill within Rivers Street. The front is faced with limestone ashlar, while the rear is rendered. It has a Welsh slate, parapeted mansard roof with coped verges. A stack is present to the left, with the upper part rebuilt in reconstituted stone and early clay pots.

The house is three storeys with an attic and basement, and has a two-window front. The first floor has two-over-two, six-over-six, two-over-two sash windows with timber mullions, set in plain reveals and stone sills. The second floor has matching six-over-six sashes. The ground floor features a similar six-over-six sash on the left, and a six-panel door with reeded and glazed panels, set in a beaded plain reveal and a pennant stone step. The basement has two six-over-six sashes, with window heads above pavement level and a grating in the pavement. A double dormer window with six-over-six sashes is also present.

Other external details include a shallow plinth, a band course above the ground floor, a dentil eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation is partially visible, displaying six-over-six sashes to the first and second floors, and in the double dormer. A small 20th-century window is located to the centre-left of the second floor, alongside a 20th-century rooflight in the mansard. The interior has not been inspected.

Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger in the late 1760s and 1770s. This specific property’s date is derived from a title abstract, held at the Bath City Archives. Numerous Bath builders were involved in realising Wood’s overall design.