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Great Pulteney Street, BATH, BA2 4BS

Fountain roundabout in one of the streets of Bath

Viewed from Laura place, the longest, widest and straightest street in Bath. The Holburne Museum, at the entrance to Sydney Gardens, is the building at the far end.

Well alright, they're a bit grander than what we normally think of as terraced houses! Many of these are hotels or flats these days, but they're still striking and imposing to look at.

An unusually styled cut mark near the entrance to number 12. The datum line and the arrows are not commonly joined, and the proportions are somewhat rare. Oddly it is not listed in the OS database, although it seems to be a post-WWII installation and appears on maps up to the 1970s. See Image] for the longer view, and http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm82648 for the Benchmark Database.

Great Pulteney Street is a grand thoroughfare that connects Bathwick on the east of the River Avon with the City of Bath, England via the Robert Adam designed Pulteney Bridge. Viewed from the city side of the bridge the road leads directly to the Holburne Museum of Art that was originally the Sydney Hotel where tea rooms, card rooms, a concert room and a ballroom were installed for the amusement of Bath's many visitors. Commissioned by Sir William Pulteney, it was designed by the architect Thomas Baldwin and completed in 1789. The Corporation of Bath wanted to expand the boundaries of the City, and Sir William's estate was conveniently situated just over the other side of the River Avon. At over 1,000 feet (300 m) long and 100 feet (30 m) wide, the road itself is the widest and the grandest in Bath. However, the architect, Baldwin, designed only the façades of buildings. A variety of owners acquired plots of land along the new street and built the actual structures behind the façades, so that while the street has a visual unity, the buildings have different internal features, some having been designed as private houses and others as hotels. See; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pulteney_Street

Rubbish bags out ready for collection in this heritage street. A benchmark has been cut into the stonework beside the entrance to number 12 - Image

One of the few great processional streets in British architecture, running on axis from Pulteney Bridge in the west to the Holburne Museum in the east, the latter facing down its 1,100 foot length (Image]). The designers were Thomas Baldwin, and after c1793, his successor, John Pinch the Elder. This is the middle section of the south side, between William and Edward Streets, and is the most palatial. Three-bay houses, rusticated ground floor with round-arched windows, the main accents pilastered ends and a grand pilastered and pedimented centrepiece (Image]). Built 1790-94. Grade I listed.

Roger, one of King Bladud's Pigs, in Great Pulteney Street.