15 and 15A Rivers Street and attached railings

End of terrace house, now converted into flats, dated 1775-1780. This building forms part of the Rivers Street development undertaken by John Wood the Younger in Bath.

The building is constructed in limestone ashlar to the principal front, with rubble to the basement and render to the right side facing Gloucester Street. The rear is a mix of rubble, ashlar and render. The roof is double pile with a parapeted design, featuring a Welsh slate mansard to the front. The mansard was rebuilt to incorporate a full third floor to the rear, which is covered with double Roman tiles. Two ashlar and render stacks stand to the right, rising from a coped gable wall to the front.

The exterior comprises three storeys, an attic and a basement. The first floor displays three grouped plate glass horned sashes, with the left and right sashes being narrower than the central one. These are set in plain reveals with a continuous stone sill. The second floor contains four sashes of four/four lights, six/six lights, and four/four lights respectively, also in similar reveals.

The ground floor to the right has two six/six-sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills. To the left stands a six-panel door with a flush reeded and fielded single glazed panel, decorated with a cast iron lion's mask knocker. The door is set within a pedimented Doric doorcase, with one pennant step leading up to it and a pennant-paved crossover flush with the pavement.

The basement contains two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with a continuous stone sill, together with a pair of 20th-century glazed doors beneath the crossover. There are no area steps. One double and one single dormer, both containing plate glass sashes, project from the roof.

A band course runs over the ground floor, and a modillion cornice with a coped parapet topped by a lead hopper at its centre runs along the front elevation. The right side features six/six-sashes with wrought iron balconettes to both the first and second floors. A small window occupies a blocked doorway to the ground floor, and a two-light casement window is fitted to the third floor.

The rear elevation contains glazing bar sashes serving the staircase. Windows to the first and second floors are blocked, whilst a two-light casement window serves the third floor.

The property includes attached wrought iron railings and a gate set on limestone bases. Additional small railings with arrowhead finials stand on a short length of ashlar wall attached to the front right.

Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger on three parcels of land acquired at different dates. Numbers 1-11 were constructed in conjunction with Catharine Place on ground conveyed on perpetual leasehold by Sir Benet Garrard to Wood and his trustee Brock on 19 and 20 December 1766. Numbers 16-28 and 36-47, along with areas behind numbers 46 and 47, were constructed on ground conveyed from the Rivers Estate (owned by Sir Peter Rivers Gay) to Wood on 5 March 1768 for a 99-year term. Numbers 28-35 were constructed in conjunction with Russell Street on ground purchased by John Wood and his trustee Andrew Sproule from Thomas and Daniel Omer on 30 December 1768 on perpetual freehold rents.

The strip of ground on which numbers 12-15 and 48-50 were constructed appears never to have been acquired by John Wood. The sites of numbers 12-15 were conveyed from the Rivers Estate to Thomas and James Beale on 30 December 1774 and 16 October 1776 on perpetual freehold rents. A number of different Bath builders were responsible for implementing Wood's overall design for the street.

The interior was not inspected at the time of listing.