Grosvenor Place (Bath)

 road, neighbourhood

Georgian terrace set back from the London Road, Bath.
Started in 1791 to the designs of John Eversleigh this development ran into finacial problems almost immediately. There was a nation wide speculative housing boom in the 1780s. Bath, for a number of reasons saw more speculative developments than possibly anywhere else outside London. In 1793 there was a financial crisis meant several Banks in Bath got into trouble. A number of builders and developers went bankrupt, including John Eversleigh. Building ceased for a long time and the last houses here were sold in the 1820s. Completed by other hands, there is a mixture of designs and on some of the houses Eversleigh's detailing is conspiciously unfinished.