23a, Sydney Buildings

23A Sydney Buildings is an industrial building, possibly a warehouse, located on a sloping site beside the canal. It dates from the early 19th century and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The materials used include painted limestone rubble for the street front and ashlar for the two-storey canal front, topped with a hipped slate roof and no chimneys.

The exterior features a single storey facing the street and two storeys at the rear. The street front has a large central dormer and a large window, both from the 20th century, with a 20th-century door to the left that has a shouldered jamb to the right. At the rear, there is a full-height opening that used to serve as a warehouse, now filled with recessed 20th-century windows in wooden frames, along with a small two-light casement window on the lower ground floor to the right.

The interior has not been inspected. The building was converted by and for architect Edward Nash around 1989, and a bronze plaque on the exterior commemorates an environmental award from the Bath Conservation Area Advisory Committee received that year. This building is a notable industrial survivor along the Kennet and Avon Canal, which opened in 1810.