21-31, PROSPECT PLACE

Eleven terrace houses occupying the right end of Prospect Place, dating to around 1810 with twentieth-century additions.

The buildings are constructed in painted limestone ashlar and render with double pitch roofs and moulded stacks positioned to party walls. All have double depth plans and are two storeys with basements, arranged in ranges of one to two windows.

A continuous coped parapet and cornice runs across the terrace. The individual houses vary in their fenestration and architectural detail. Number 21, to the left, has a single window range with scalloped edges to the upper rails of sliding louvred shutters on two/two-pane sash windows, with a twentieth-century door to the right. Number 22 features a single window range with a wide two/two-pane sash window and balconette to the first floor and splayed reveals to a narrower two/two-pane sash at ground floor left. The entrance door is four-panel and glazed to the top, set in a simple enclosed porch with reeded jambs and a minimal pediment with antefixae to the hood. Number 23 has a trellised balconette to paired two-light plate glass sash windows on the first floor left, above a wide two/two-pane sash to the ground floor. The entrance is a four-panel glazed door set in a trellised porch with a semi-elliptical arch and swept hipped canopy. Number 24 has a balconette to paired nine/nine-pane sash windows on the first floor left, above a twelve/twelve-pane sash. A six-panel glazed door is positioned set back to the right. Number 25 has a balconette to paired plate glass sash windows on the first floor left, over a tripartite sash. The entrance is a six-panel glazed door in a simple enclosed porch with roundels to the spandrels of a reeded segmental arch and reeded fronts to the jambs. Number 26 features six/six-pane sash windows to the left of both floors with bolection moulding to the lower panels, and a set back six-panel door glazed to the top to the right. Number 27 has sliding louvred shutters to paired four/four-pane sash windows on the first floor left, above a late nineteenth-century single storey canted bay with a hipped lead roof and stop-chamfered arrises to plate glass sash windows. The entrance door is six-panel and glazed to the top.

Number 28 was heightened to three storeys in the mid-nineteenth century. The cornice of the terrace continues across its facade with a coped parapet and cornice to the attic storey. The building has hinged louvred shutters and raised surrounds to one window on each floor: eight/eight-pane sash windows to the attic storey, six/six-pane sash with margin panes and a balconette to the first floor, and two/two-pane sash with margin panes and horizontal glazing bars to the ground floor. A moulded architrave frames the door to the right, with a diagonal square panel to the top and two panels below. The deeds for this property date to 1810 and name Chubb as the proprietor. Number 29 has a late nineteenth-century attic in a steep mansard roof behind the continuous parapet, with paired four/four-pane sash windows to the centre. To the left of the first floor is a six/nine-pane sash window above a six/six-pane sash. A late nineteenth-century six-panel door to the right has four glazed panels to the top. Number 30 has a balconette to paired plate glass first floor windows above one similar window. The entrance is a five-panel door glazed to the top. Number 31, at the right terminal, has one plate glass sash window to each floor, with the first floor example having a balconette. A set back twentieth-century six-panel door is positioned to the right.

The interiors were not inspected during the survey. Number 25 has been recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust survey of interiors, which documented a wooden staircase, ground floor rooms knocked through, moulded architraves to doors, and much recent alteration.