Nile Street, Bath
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| Location | Bath, Somerset, England |
| Coordinates | 51°22′57″N 2°22′12″W / 51.38250°N 2.37000°WCoordinates: 51°22′57″N 2°22′12″W / 51.38250°N 2.37000°W |
| Built | c. 1807 to c. 1814 |
| Architect | unknown |
| Architectural style(s) | Georgian |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Official name: 1-3 Nile Street | |
| Designated | 12 June 1950 |
| Reference no. | 443116 |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Official name: Monmouth Place Nos. 16A and 17 | |
| Designated | 12 June 1950 |
| Reference no. | 447743 |
 Location of Nile Street in Somerset
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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 (south) and Monmouth Place (north). On the west side two houses were destroyed by bombing in the Second World War and in 2010 there was only one house (No. 1 Nelson Place) on this side of the street, but more were under construction.
Nile Street is part of an urban development centred on Norfolk Crescent that was undertaken by a solicitor called Richard Bowsher in 1792. A short street was conceived to link the new buildings to the Upper Bristol Road, the main carriage route between Bath and Bristol. The streets of the development were named after Admiral Nelson (Nelson Place), Nelson's home county (Norfolk Crescent) and the Battle of the Nile (Nile Street). The streets were given their names in c. 1800, some years before the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), so the Battle of the Nile was Nelson's most famous victory at that time. The street was marked as Howard Street and Norfolk Street on various earlier maps of Bath.
The west side of Nile Street was made up of No. 1 Nelson Place on the south end and No. 1 St Georges Place on the north end, with No. 4 Nile Street between these two houses. There was a gap next to No. 1 Nelson Place due to the garden at the rear of this house. No. 4 Nile Street and No. 1 St Georges Place were not on Richard Bowsher's land and they were built in the early 19th century.
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.
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