Old Bond Street, Bath
The houses, now all with shops on their ground floors, at 12-15 Old Bond Street, were built in Bath's Georgian heyday in the 1760s, and are located just metres from the Abbey Courtyard.
The Royal Mineral Water Hospital building lies at the end of Old Bond Street on the Upper Borough Walls, and remained a hospital until 2019 when what was by then the National Health Service's Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases moved to a purpose-built site on the outskirts of Bath. The building dates to 1742 and was built by John Wood the Elder, with major extensions being added in 1793 and 1860.
Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset. With a history going back to Roman times, when it first became a centre for bathing, much of its famed architecture dates from the Georgian era, when it became a fashionable place for wealthy Londoners to take the waters, connected by the ever faster stagecoach network.
Many of the streets and squares were laid out by John Wood, the Elder. Jane Austen lived in Bath in the early 19th century. Further building was undertaken in the 19th century and following the Baedecker Blitz of 1942.
Old Bond Street, Bath
The houses, now all with shops on their ground floors, at 12-15 Old Bond Street, were built in Bath's Georgian heyday in the 1760s, and are located just metres from the Abbey Courtyard.
The Royal Mineral Water Hospital building lies at the end of Old Bond Street on the Upper Borough Walls, and remained a hospital until 2019 when what was by then the National Health Service's Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases moved to a purpose-built site on the outskirts of Bath. The building dates to 1742 and was built by John Wood the Elder, with major extensions being added in 1793 and 1860.
Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset. With a history going back to Roman times, when it first became a centre for bathing, much of its famed architecture dates from the Georgian era, when it became a fashionable place for wealthy Londoners to take the waters, connected by the ever faster stagecoach network.
Many of the streets and squares were laid out by John Wood, the Elder. Jane Austen lived in Bath in the early 19th century. Further building was undertaken in the 19th century and following the Baedecker Blitz of 1942.