page_title: Nile Street, Bath
section_title: East side
hierarchical_section_title: Nile Street, Bath / History / Construction 1807 – c. 1814 / East side
caption_attribution_description: English: A comparison of an 1808 facade plan in the building lease for No. 2 Nile Street, Bath with the building's facade today.
context_page_description: Nile Street in Bath, Somerset, England is a short street of Georgian houses linking Norfolk Crescent and Nelson Place West with the Upper Bristol Road.
  On the east side there are five houses, including the corner blocks to Great Stanhope Street and Monmouth Place. On the west side two houses were destroyed by bombing in the Second World War and in 2010 there was only one house on this side of the street, but more were under construction.
context_section_description: Building leases for the houses on the east side of Nile Street were taken out in 1807–08 and these houses were finished c. 1812–14. The architect responsible for the design of the other houses on Bowsher's land was John Palmer (and later John Pinch the elder), but there is no record of an architect for the houses on Nile Street. Only one of the building leases, the lease for No. 2 dating from 1808, has a specified facade plan. The other houses had no specified design, but their uniform facade roughly matches the houses in Great Stanhope Street (at the south end of Nile Street). It was common for builders create their own simple designs without an architect being engaged, so the east side of Nile Street may have been the result of an informal agreement.
  The lease for No. 2 states that the house is to be built with the "..front thence of against Nile Street in every respect agreeably to the Elevation, Plan and design of the said Richard Bowsher and which elevation is more particularly described in the plan drawn in the margin.." This house, which is at the centre of the street, has a taller facade with the attic storey brought forward, matching the style of Norfolk Crescent, but more plain. The house itself does not precisely match the design in the lease. The door, instead of being central with a window either side of it, is on the left hand side of the house. It was not uncommon for builders to ignore or alter the plans they were given, which is probably what happened in this case.
caption: No. 2 Nile Street. A comparison of the facade plan in the building lease with the actual house as built.
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