Bathwick Hill in Bath,

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, England is a street lined with historic houses, many of which are designated as

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s. It climbs south east from the A36 towards the

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Claverton Down Claverton Down is a suburb on the south-east hilltop edge of Bath, Somerset, England. It is linked to the Bathwick area of the city by Bathwick Hill. Primarily a rural area with relatively few houses, it is home to the University of Bath, the h ...

, providing views over the city. Ralph Allens Castle - geograph

To the north is Sham Castle, a

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built in 1762 by Richard James, master mason for

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, "to improve the prospect" from Allen's town house in Bath. It is a screen wall with a central pointed arch flanked by two 3-storey circular turrets, which extend sideways to a 2-storey square tower at each end of the wall. It is illuminated at night. As the hill rises away from the city centre it passes over a tunnel, built in 1840, on the

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close to

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and the

Kennet and Avon Canal The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of , made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal. The name is used to refer to the entire length of the navigation rather than solely to the cent ...

Bath Locks Bath Locks () are a series of locks, now six locks, situated at the start of the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Bath, England. Bath Bottom Lock, which is numbered as No 7 on the canal, is the meeting with the River Avon just south of Pulteney Bridge ...

via an elliptical arch bridge.

Houses

Numbers 1 to 23 are on the south side and numbers 35 onwards on the north side.

South side

Number 1 (Bathwick Lodge) is a 2-storey villa with a steep

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room, built in 1825, extended in 1840 and the late C19. Probably by John Pinch the Elder. Number 2 is from the early 19th century and has shutters over the windows. Number 3 includes a porch which is elaborately enriched with carving, Neo-Grecian gate posts and wrought iron gates. Number 4 has a

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which sweeps up to central

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with a

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flourish, as does number 5 which is also known as Cornwall Lodge. Number 6, which is also known as Willow House, includes a wrought iron

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on the 1st floor. Number 7 has a shallow

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. Number 8 has also been known as Upsala Villa and later as Mendip Lodge. The road elevation of number 9, built in 1820, extended in 1870, presents half an octagon in plan with overhanging

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s. Number 10 is a 2-storey Neo-Grecian villa built in the early 19th century by Thomas Baldwin. The central projection has a curved

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with 4 fluted Ionic columns and Ionic

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s which go through 2 floors. It is a Grade II*

. Numbers 11, 12 and 13 form a block of attached villas. Number 14 is also from the early 19th century. Number 15, which is also known as The White Loge, is of a similar vintage and includes a 2-storey porch with

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columns, as does number 17. Number 18 is from the late 18th or early 19th century and includes a

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veranda, and number 19, which is also known as Woodland House, has a balustraded parapet. Numbers 20 and 21 form a block. Number 22 has a rusticated ground floor and

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s. Number 23 was built in 1817 by William Smith of Walcot, for J Barnard. It is a 3-storey building with a mansard roof. Claverton Lodge was built around 1825 and later enlarged and altered in classical style when a columned loggia porch with a conical roof was added. Combe Royal was built in

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style between 1815 and 1820. The lodge is in a similar style.

North side

Number 35 is a 3-storey building with a portico of 4 Doric columns, while numbers 36 and 37 form a block of two semi-detached houses. Number 38, which is also known as Bayfield House, has a portico with Doric columns, while numbers 39 and 40 form a block of two semi-detached houses similar to numbers 36 and 37. Ardenlee is thought to be an early 19th-century recasing of an earlier building. Woodland Place is a Regency terrace of six houses, designed in about 1826 by

Henry Goodridge Henry Edmund Goodridge (1797, Bath – 26 October 1864) was an English architect based in Bath. He worked from the early 1820s until the 1850s, using Classical, Italianate and Gothic styles. Life He was born in Bath in 1797 the son of James Goo ...

. The large

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villa, Bathwick Grange, which was formerly known as Montebello, was built by Goodridge as his own house, and includes a lodge. He is also though to have built Bathwick Hill House next door. Fiesole is another Italianate house probably by Goodridge which later became a

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. Oakwood, which was formerly known as Smallcombe Grove, which is also in the style of Goodridge was built for local painter Benjamin Barker. It has an ornamental garden, bridge and pool with fountain. Casa Bianca and La Casetta also have an Italianate style and include Tuscan columns. Miles House followed in a similar style around 1840 to 1850. Uplands dates from around 1840, and Upton House has been dated to the early 19th century.

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Houses

South side

North side

See also

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