4 Sydney Place (AW22)

Between 1801 and 1806 the novelist Jane Austen resided in Bath with her parents and her sister Cassandra. The move from their home in Hampshire came after their father, the Reverend George Austen, and mother Elizabeth decided to retire to the fashionable spa town. Three of those years were spent at this elegant newly-built terraced house in Sydney Place.
It was situated opposite Sydney Gardens, a leafy pleasure park with a maze, concerts and regular firework displays. It must have provided Jane and Cassandra with plenty to watch from the windows of the first floor drawing room which commanded a fine view over the gardens.