No. 20 and Attached Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
No. 20 and Attached Wall
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-rubble-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1950
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- No. 20 and Attached Wall, Sion Hill, BA1 2UJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 739 661
- Coordinates
- 51.3934, -2.37545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 is a detached villa built in the early 19th century. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a slate roof with moulded stacks at the high coped gable ends. The villa is square, two storeys high, with an attic storey and a basement. The principal elevations have a symmetrical three-window arrangement, while a single window range to the west, likely added later, projects to the north side. The central windows have shallow segmental arched recesses, and the central first-floor openings feature balconies with cast iron railings on scroll brackets. The first floor has six/six-pane sash windows, with the left window on the street elevation being blind. A continuous plat-band runs along the building, and the cornice over the first floor has a stepped frieze and a band above, adorned with smoothly curved acroteria carved into the attic quoins. The substantial attic storey has three/three-pane sash windows at eaves level on the north and south fronts, and the returns have three-window arrangements with margin paned casements in the attic. The left wing of the villa is three-storey and slightly lower, featuring windows set in segmental arched recesses at the front and rear, with an attic window cutting through the cornice. The interior has not been inspected. The garden is enclosed by a coped rubblestone wall approximately 3 meters high, extending 20 meters along the north front and 50 meters along Sion Hill to the east. At the top of the hill, there is a six-panel door with freestone jambs and a lintel, topped with a plain simple pediment flanked by plain acroteria.
Local climate
No. 20 and Attached Wall receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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