39 And 40, Fore Street

39 and 40 Fore Street are two-storey buildings constructed in 1854-55 in an early Renaissance Italianate style. They are made of dressed and coursed Bath stone. The parapet is ramped up at the sides and center, featuring billet moulding over the ground floor. There is plain moulding with grotesques on the sides, including an atlant and a lion-like figure, with a bulge in the center where a flagstaff once stood. The ground floor has an arcade of four openings with drip moulds and dying mouldings on the arches. Number 39 retains carved capitals on its octagonal piers, while the piers of Number 40 have been replaced by a rolled steel joist for both arches, which are now glazed. On the first floor, there are two pairs of arched windows, also with drip moulds, cable moulding, coupled central colonettes with stiff leaf caps, piers on the sides, and mask cill brackets on both pairs. Numbers 37 to 44, along with Number 38A and Numbers 46 to 48, form a group with Number 13 Church Walk, while Number 43 is noted for its local interest.