The Royal Crescent in Bath was designed by John Wood the Younger. It had no single client. Each original purchaser bought a section of the facade and hired an architect for the house behind it. The infobox and introduction give 1767 to 1774, but the body text says the facade was designed between 1767 and 1775.
The article calls the style Georgian, with Ionic columns and a Palladian entablature. It uses Bath stone and slate roofs, which were originally stone-tiled. It is about 500 feet (150 m) long, and the buildings are almost 50 feet (15 m) high.
It was listed Grade I in 1950. Nos. 15 and 16 became a hotel in 1971, and Topland Group bought the hotel in 2012. The crescent holds private homes, flats, the No. 1 Royal Crescent museum and the Royal Crescent Hotel. The article gives no hours.
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