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The Edgar Townhouse is a small friendly guest house located on Great Pulteney Street in the centre of Bath. The house was designed in the classical Georgian style between 1780-1790 by the architect Thomas Baldwin, and lies on the former estate of Sir William Johnston Pulteney who developed the land and gave his name to the street.
The Edgar Townhouse is named after King Edgar who was crowned the first King of England in AD973. Edgar was crowned in Saxon monastery, which was destroyed and is now replaced by the 15thC abbey, which is a short walk from the guesthouse.
When UNESCO designated Bath a World Heritage site in 1987 it put Bath on a par architecturally with the great beauties of Florence and Rome.
Great Pulteney Street one of Europe's most magnificent avenues designed by Thomas Baldwin to be exactly 1000ft long and 100ft wide. At one end of Great Pulteney Street is Pulteney Bridge, which was modelled by Robert Adam on the famous Ponte Vecchio in Florence. Walk over this bridge and you are in the centre of Bath, close to the Roman Baths, the pump rooms and the famous Royal Crescent and Victoria Park.
Bath is a city of all seasons. The famous Jane Austen lived in Bath and set many of her novels here as did Charles Dickens. Throughout the city the honey coloured stone buildings are built in tiered ranks, crescents, parades and squares are interspersed by spaces, which sympathetically link buildings and landscape.
The Edgar Townhouse is privately owned and has been converted into comfortable 18 bedrooms bed and breakfast accommodation. Most of the rooms have original fireplaces and carved ceilings. The rooms are centrally heated and are a mixture if double, twin, single and family rooms, all having their own private shower and WC, colour TV, tea and coffee making facilities.
The proprietors aim to offer good clean accommodation at an affordable price in the centre of Bath. Most of the main tourist attractions are within easy walking distance including the shops and excellent restaurants where one can sample local food, such as the Bath Buns, Sally Lunn Cakes, Bath Chaps and most famous Bath Olivers.
