Bath
·
2023
Undercroft Cellar
Built
c. 1250
Listing
Grade I
Scope
Repair, lighting, furniture
Duration
14 months
Area
180 m²
A vaulted undercroft below a merchant's house, opened up as a dining room and wine store.
A thirteenth-century undercroft below a Georgian townhouse. It had been a coal store, then a wine cellar that flooded every February.
What we did
We traced the water to a blocked medieval drain and opened it again. The vault was cleaned, repointed in lime and lit from the floor. It is now a dining room for twelve, with a wine store behind an iron screen made in our forge.
Then and now
Drag across the picture to see the building as we found it and as it is today.
In the rooms
“We eat down there most nights now. Nobody believes it used to flood.”
Daniel Price, owner
