Pierrepont Place, Bath

Records indicate that Pierrepont Place and properties on it were built by John Wood the Elder between 1732 and 1748, on land once belonging to monks of Bath Abbey, who had used it as an orchard.

5 Pierrepont Place was previously owned by the Bath Freemasons for 200 years, after purchasing the house along with the theatre building in 1809 for £25.

Bath Abbey, formally known as Priory Church, had an orchard which was given to the city by Edmund Colthurst in 1572.

[3] Around 1732–1744, Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, sold the old Bath Abbey Orchards land in Bath to John Wood the Elder and his business partner James Leake who went on to design and construct housing and named the streets 'Pierrepont Place' and 'Pierrepont Street' in homage to Eveyln and the family; Evelyn continued to live in Bath, however, until his death.

Residents in Pierrepont Place are still required to honor the annual payment of £4 to the successors of the Most Noble Dukes estate as per the original lease agreement.