No. 16 And Attached Railings

RUSSELL STREET 656-1/30/1458 (East side)

No.16 and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as: RUSSELL STREET Nos.1-18 (Consec)) 12/06/50 GV II

House, now flats. c1771-1773. Architect: John Wood the Younger. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble below basement windows, ashlar and rubble to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh Slate to front, concrete tile to rear with coped party wall to right with two ashlar stacks with some early clay pots. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with splayed jambs with friezes and cornices and lowered moulded stone sills on cut down console brackets. Second floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has, to right, two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with splayed jambs with stone sills; to left, a six-panel door with flush beaded, fielded and glazed panels with one marble topped step in cyma moulded architrave with flat surround with heavy console brackets supporting projecting moulded cornice forming hood over, two steps to concrete coated crossover. Basement has two six/six-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, C20 door with overlight in ashlar infilling under crossover, C20 area steps. Two single dormers with two-light timber casements. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Lead hopperhead and downpipe attached to left shared with No.15 Russell Street (qv). Rear elevation partially visible has six/six-sash to second half-landing of staircase, plate glass sash to second floor, plate glass sash and C20 window to dormer. INTERIOR: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on limestone bases. HISTORY: Russell Street developed by John Wood in conjunction with Assembly Rooms and east end of Rivers Street on part of Holdstock's Garden or Russell's Close bought by Wood and Andrew Sproule, his trustee, from Thomas and Daniel Omer 30th December 1768. SOURCES: Bath City Record Office, Deed Packet: 2382A 15 RUSSELL ST; T. Thorp T, Plan of the Parish of Walcot ... Surveyed for - Gay Esq 1740'; Walter Ison,The Georgian Buildings of Bath' ((2nd ed. 1980), 156. Listing NGR: ST7486465379