Grosvenor Place, Bath
Encyclopedia
Grosvenor Place in Bath, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

, England was built around 1790 by John Eveleigh
John Eveleigh
John Eveleigh was an English surveyor and architect in Bath.He began his practice in Bath in the 1780s, but went bankrupt after the failure of the Bath City Bank and moved to Plymouth.-List of works:* Camden Crescent, Bath...

. It lies alongside the A4 London Road and many of the houses are listed buildings.

Grosvenor House is a terrace of 42 houses (numbered 1 to 41), with double curves to the large central house, number 23, which was formerly the Grosvenor Hotel, and has giant Ionic
Ionic order
The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian...

half columns on the 1st and 2nd floors.

Grosvenor Lodge and Grosvenor Villa are two houses at the end of the south side which were built slightly later.
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK