page_title: Nelson Place West
section_title: Reduced design (c. 1820-c. 1835)
hierarchical_section_title: Nelson Place West / History / Reduced design (c. 1820-c. 1835)
caption_attribution_description: English: Photographs of No. 2 (c.1817) and No. 5 (c.1827) Nelson Place West, Bath, with the edges of each house highlighted.
context_page_description: Nelson Place West is Grade II listed Georgian terrace of houses in Bath, Somerset, England. It was built as "Nelson Place" in the early 19th century, and the suffix "West" was added to avoid confusion with Nelson Place East on the other side of the city. The end houses have Ionic pilasters and there is a wrought iron balcony on the second floor of Nos. 2–8. These features match the adjacent Norfolk Crescent, which was built as part of the same urban development.
  On the western end of the Georgian terrace there is a 1970s block of flats called Nelson House and further down the street there is a row of Victorian houses called Nelson Villas.
context_section_description: Nos. 1 and 2 Nelson Place were first leased c. 1817, but it was no easy task to raise funds for the other planned 21 houses in the terrace. As a result, it was decided that the terrace could be continued with smaller houses. The new design, probably the work of John Pinch the elder, had houses that were 2 windows wide, to attract middle class rather than upper class occupants. The ground floor window (which is larger than the others) and the door are offset from the upper windows. Pinch designed very similar terraces elsewhere in Bath, such as Raby Place (Bathwick Hill). Four houses (Nos. 3–6) were built in this style and completed c. 1827 and a further two houses (Nos. 7 and 8) were built slightly later and completed c. 1835. By this time the demand for town houses was dropping and no more houses were built in Nelson Place.
caption: No. 2 (left) and No. 5 (right) Nelson Place, showing the reduction in width from Palmer's design (left) to Pinch's design (right).
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