Rowing Club

The Rowing Club, located at No. 49 on St Margaret's Street, is a building dating from the late 17th century, with an 18th-century wing extension and an outbuilding to the right. The main structure is built of coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and features modern pantile roofs with three gables, the central one being smaller. It stands three storeys tall and has five windows that are two-light casements without glazing bars, surrounded by plain architrave and stone mullions. The windows on the first and ground floors include single transoms, and all windows are topped with a flat moulded cornice.

The central doorway has a square head and a moulded architrave surround, set beneath a projecting portico supported by wall pilasters and detached Tuscan columns, along with an entablature featuring a dentilled cornice and a blocking course. The wing extension contains a square-headed doorway with a wooden doorcase and one sash window above that has glazing bars. The outbuilding is constructed of rubble with a half-hipped pantile roof and features a Venetian window on the ground floor, with sashes that include glazing bars in plain reveals and a semi-circular-headed centre light.

The Rowing Club is part of a group of buildings that includes The Three Horseshoes and Nos 1 to 4 on Frome Road, the Liberal Club, The Baptist Chapel, the Congregational Church and Hall, and Nos 6 to 16, 19 to 22, 36, 42 to 49, and Westbury House on St Margaret's Street, as well as No. 1 on St Margaret's Hill.