Trim Street, Bath
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| locmapin = Somerset
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| location =Bath, Somerset, England
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| built =18th century
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| designation1 =Grade I Listed Building
| designation1_offname =General Wolfe's House, with railings (Number 5)
| designation1_date =12 June 1950
| designation1_number =1395385
| designation2 =Grade II Listed Building
| designation2_offname =No. 10 with forecourt
| designation2_date =11 August 1972
| designation2_number =1395393
| designation3 =Grade II Listed Building
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| designation3_date =11 August 1972
| designation3_number =1395395
| designation4 =Grade II Listed Building
| designation4_offname =15, 16 and 17, Trim Street
| designation4_date =11 August 1972
| designation4_number =1395405
| designation5 =Grade II Listed Building
| designation5_offname =Nos. 6 and 7 with railings
| designation5_date =12 June 1950
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| designation5 =Grade II Listed Building
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| designation1 =Grade II Listed Building
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Trim Street in Bath, Somerset, England is an historic street, built in 1707, of shops and houses, many of which are listed buildings. It was named after George Trim who owned the land.{{cite book|last=Haddon|first=John|title=Portrait of Bath|publisher=Robert Hale|location=London|year=1982|page=61|isbn=0-7091-9883-3}}
Number 5, which is also known as General Wolfe's house, is a two-storey building with a parapet and rusticated quoins, built by Thomas Greenway. The doorway has Ionic pilasters and a tympanum decorated with the implements of war. General James Wolfe was staying in the house when William Pitt, the elder commanded him to lead an expedition to Quebec.{{cite web|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443809|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018033920/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443809|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-18|title=General Wolfe's House|work=Images of England|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=2009-09-03}}{{cite web|url=http://www.minervaconservation.com/projects/wolfe.html|title=General Wolfes house, Trim Street, Bath|work=|publisher=|accessdate=2010-09-13}}{{cite book|last=Greenwood|first=Charles|title=Famous houses of the West Country|year=1977|publisher=Kingsmead Press|location=Bath|isbn=978-0-901571-87-8|pages=91–92}}
Numbers 6 and 7 are three-storey houses with a mansard roof,{{cite web|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443846|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025012420/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443846|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-25|title=Numbers 6 and 7|work=Images of England|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=2009-09-03}} as are number 8{{cite web|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443847|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025012458/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443847|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-25|title=Number 8|work=Images of England|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=2009-09-03}} and 9.{{cite web|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443848|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025012542/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443848|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-25|title=Number 9|work=Images of England|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=2009-09-03}}
Number 10 dates from the late 18th century. It has 3 storeys plus an attic and mansard roof. The doorway has Doric columns and a pediment.{{cite web|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443849|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025012254/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443849|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-25|title=Number 10|work=Images of England|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=2009-09-03}}
Numbers 11 to 13 form a block of three- and four-storey buildings now used as shops,{{cite web|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443850|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102160443/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443850|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-11-02|title=Numbers 11 to 14|work=Images of England|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=2009-09-03}} while the 4 storey block at number 15 to 17 is still residential.{{cite web|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443851|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102160503/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443851|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-11-02|title=Numbers 15 to 17|work=Images of England|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=2009-09-03}} Number 14 and number 9 are 3 storey residential buildings.
Jane Austen also lived in Trim Street, although her house is no longer there. This was the Austen family's fourth address in Bath, each progressively cheaper and less desirable than the last.
The Unitarian Church was built in 1795 by John Palmer. The apse was the added and interior altered in 1860.{{cite web|url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443852|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025012645/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443852|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-25|title=Unitarian Church|work=Images of England|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=2009-09-03}} In 1809 the antiquarian Joseph Hunter, took up the post of Minister at the Chapel,{{cite book|last=Odom|first=William|title=Hallamshire Worthies|publisher=Northend|location=Sheffield|year=1926|pages=12–14|chapter=Hunter, Joseph, F.S.A.}} there he met and married Mary Hayward,{{cite book |title=A brief memoir of the late Joseph Hunter, with a catalogue of his publications |last=Hunter |first=Sylvester Joseph |authorlink = Sylvester Joseph Hunter|year=1861 |publisher=John Edward Taylor }} with whom he would have six children.{{cite book|last=Manning|first=John Edmondson|authorlink=John Edmondson Manning|title=A History of Upper Chapel, Sheffield|publisher=The Independent Press|location=Sheffield|year=1900|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofupperch00mann/page/86 86]–92|oclc=19012007|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofupperch00mann}}