5 Rivers Street and attached railings

The property at 5 Rivers Street, Bath, is a house built between 1770 and 1775, designed by John Wood the Younger, and later converted into flats. It is one of a group of buildings that project slightly forward to form the front of Catharine Place. The front is constructed of limestone ashlar, while the rear is a combination of ashlar and rubble. The roof is a parapeted mansard style, covered with Welsh slate, with a coped party wall and two ashlar stacks to the right.

The exterior features a Venetian window on the first floor with plate glass, horned sash windows and a continuous wrought iron balconette. The second floor has three grouped plate glass, horned sash windows. The ground floor has two paired sash windows and a six-panel door within a pedimented Ionic doorcase, leading to a pennant-paved crossover with a cast iron foot-scraper. Basement windows are also sash windows, with a C20 door filling an ashlar infill. A double dormer window is located in the roof. A band course runs above the ground floor, topped by a modillion cornice and a coped parapet that continues with the adjacent buildings at numbers 6 and 7 Rivers Street. A lead downpipe is visible on the right side. The rear elevation mirrors the front, with sash windows and a first-floor balconette.

The interior has not been inspected.

Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate supported by limestone and cement bases.

Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger in stages, using land acquired on perpetual leases from various sources, including Sir Benet Garrard, Sir Peter Rivers Gay, and Thomas and Daniel Omer. The construction was carried out by a number of different Bath builders. Historical records including building leases and rate books, along with Walter Ison's "The Georgian Buildings of Bath", document the building’s history.