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Summary

Description

Early 19th century with later alterations. Single storey over raised basement, 3-bay, rectangular-plan classical house. Painted droved ashlar to ground, painted lined smooth render to basement, rendered side and rear elevations. Band course between basement and ground floors; mutuled cornice and blocking course; architraved windows.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: slightly advanced central bay, segmental-arched doorpiece with deep-set door, flanked by blind sidelights, over-spanned by shallow segmental fanlight. Alterations to basement floor openings to form separate dwelling. Fly-over steps and low coped boundary wall to front reconstructed at time of conversion in 1990s.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: later French doors to centre. Slate-hung box dormer.

INTERIOR: some original decorative plaster work to ceilings and cornices intact to principal ground floor rooms.

Statement of Special Interest

23 Bath Street is one of the earliest stand alone Georgian villas remaining in Portobello and because of later interventions into the street from the later 19th to the later 20th centuries, it is one of the last remaining of its type. Although somewhat altered, the building plan and profile is mainly intact and a number of good classical details remain. This villa is part of a Georgian grid street plan. Portobello became a sought after residential location in the 19th century with the first phase of large scale development and street planning taking place between 1800-1825. Bath Street was laid out between 1801 and 1802 and thus is included in the earliest phase of this villa expansion. 1st edition map indicates a former boundary wall set close to rear of house separating house from garden. (List description revised in 2006.)

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