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No.1 Royal Crescent
Life as a Georgian was spectacular – that is, if you were wealthy…
Step into a world of historic splendour at the first house built on the Royal Crescent 250 years ago. Discover how our wealthy Georgian forebears would have lived, the food they would have eaten and the art they would have enjoyed looking at….
…then take a trip below stairs to find out what life was like for everybody else!
New exhibition: “The Most Tiresome Place in the World”: Jane Austen & Bath
5 July – 2 November 2025
In 2025 No.1 Royal Crescent will celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with the exhibition, “The Most Tiresome Place in the World”: Jane Austen & Bath.
Jane Austen (1775–1817) had a complicated relationship with Bath. The scandals and shallowness of the City fuelled her cynicism and wit, and nothing escaped her scathing pen. And yet she wrote very little while living in the City. Letters, contemporary responses and the only manuscript she wrote in Bath will reveal the highs and lows of her time here, as this exhibition exposes how turbulence and loss cast a long shadow over Jane Austen and Bath.
Ticket price: £7, or £2.50 when purchased as an add-on to entry to the main museum.
Where? The Gallery at No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LR
Image: Jane Austen (1775-1817) autograph manuscript of ‘The Watsons’, c.1804-1807. The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Eng. e. 3764, booklet 9, pp. 2-3
About No. 1 Royal Crescent
A magnificently restored town-house museum and gallery, No. 1 Royal Crescent has been crowned the winning ‘Small Visitor Attraction’ 2025 by VisitEngland.
The historic house has been decorated and furnished just as it might have been during the period 1776-1796. The rooms feature historic furniture, pictures and objects that reveal what life was like for Bath’s fashionable residents – both upstairs and downstairs. A changing programme of exhibitions in the gallery complements the themes in the house with works of renowned artists and writers.
Our immersive experience brings the house to life through film and sound so that, as they wander from room to room, visitors can get a very real sense of what it would have been like for the house’s owners and servants to live here.
Step into their shoes and walk around their home!
Bridgerton
Bridgerton filming at No.1 Royal Crescent
If you haven’t visited us before but we look familiar – well, you might have seen us on hit Netflix show Bridgerton! We were used as the exterior for the Featherington family home – with a little extra set garnishing…
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