ABSTRACT
In c. 1729 John Wood the Elder drew up plans for houses in Queen Square, Bath. The interior arrangements for the rooms are curious by the standards of today. Wood placed two bedrooms on the ground floor, one each behind a dining room and parlour and beyond them, at the back of the house, was the kitchen. On the first floor were two drawing rooms, both at the front of the house and divided by a dressing room that was meant to be used by one or other of the two bedrooms towards the back of the house. 1 While Wood was concerned with the positioning of public rooms at the front of the building the mixing up of bedrooms and dressing rooms with kitchen, dining room and drawing rooms must have led to curious usage; cooking smells in the downstairs bedrooms and people in a state of undress going between bedroom and dressing room.
