10 Plymouth Road

The building at 10 Plymouth Road is an imposing structure of nine bays, with three storeys and four to the central bays, set upon a basement. Constructed in the 18th century, it’s faced in grey-brown Pennant stone with Bath stone dressings, incorporating 16th-century Flemish-style reliefs in the pediments. Half-timbering is present on the second floor. The roof is slate, with some replacement sections, featuring yellow and red brick chimneys and quoins.

The central part of the elevation has an additional attic storey with bold, splayed dormers flanking a three-light dormer with a shaped pediment. The second floor features a central three-light window, flanked by semi-hexagonal bays. Beyond these are splayed dormers, a narrow gable, and a rectangular end block with a semi-hexagonal bay window under a splayed roof. The first floor mirrors this pattern with a central three-light window beneath a broken pediment, flanked by semi-hexagonal bays with segmental pediments, followed by similar bays, a narrow segmentally-headed window, and similar bays.

The ground floor features a central porch with stairs leading to a Mannerist fluted Doric porch with annulets, a parapet, a segmental pediment, and an inscription in the frieze reading 'Lansdowne'. The porch has a cambered doorway with panelled double doors and glazing above. Flanking the porch are bay windows with triangular pediments. To the left of the front is a narrower bay with a segmentally headed door.

To the right of the main block is a single-storey projecting bank front constructed in Bath stone with a parapet and six bays articulated by tapering, fluted pilasters. This section features three-centred arches to the windows and doorway, topped with a pediment bearing the date '1833'. Further to the right, three ground floor bays form a projecting restaurant and hotel front, retaining some features similar to the bank front, such as fluted pilasters and a pediment with the date '1886'.

The side elevations display projecting gabled bays. A single-storey porch was formerly present on the right elevation, having been demolished on the left.

The rear elevation exhibits a similar design, with the central block featuring smaller polygonal bays with splayed roofs on either side of groups of three windows to each floor. Lower polygonal bays with splayed roofs flank the central block. Corner blocks are set forward, and roofs are surmounted by triangular dormers; the left roof has a pyramidal roof at an angle, which is missing from the right roof.