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Pulteney Mews, BATH, BA2 4DS

Fluted pilasters, Vitruvian scroll platband, fanlight and cobweb glazing bars. Full view: Image

The lavish centrepiece of the terrace. Six fluted Corinthian pilasters and pediment containing a coat of arms. Full view: 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.

Entering the Recreation Ground, tickets were issued at these old booths. The ground was opened in 1894 but the turnstiles operated only until around 1900. They have been restored recently. Grade II listed.

Great Pulteney Street forms the principal element of the late C18 development of the Bathwick estate east of the River Avon. Laid out on an unusually generous scale, 100ft wide, it is one of the most imposing urban set-pieces of its day in Britain.

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

Carmina, designed by Sonja Benksin-Mesher, is one of the 100 "King Bladud’s Pigs in Bath" project http://www.kingbladudspigs.org/pigs/showpig.php?pig_id=31 . She is on Great Pulteney Street.

Looking along Great Pulteney Street.

Roger the Pig by a Victorian hexagonal letterbox in Great Pulteney Street. The Laura Place fountain can be seen in the background.

Situated behind what is known as the Empire Hotel, now apartments. Notice how it has sunk, just like the Roman remains in Bath.