No. 4 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. House.
No. 4 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- sacred-terrace-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- No. 4 and Attached Railings, Spencer's Belle
- OS grid reference
- ST 747 657
- Coordinates
- 51.38989, -2.36407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 is a house, now converted into flats, built around 1770-1775, with 19th and 20th-century alterations. It was possibly developed by Mark Spencer. The front is made of limestone ashlar, while the basement and rear are constructed from rubble. The building features a double pile parapeted mansard roof covered with Welsh slate, and has a coped party wall with two ashlar stacks topped with early clay pots on the right.
The exterior is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a two-window range. On the first floor, to the left, there is a six-over-six sash window in a splayed reveal with a stone sill, and to the right, a plate glass horned sash in a splayed reveal with a stone sill and a wrought iron balconette. The second floor has two six-over-six sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills. The ground floor features, to the right, a two-over-two sash in a splayed reveal with a stone sill, and to the left, a seven-panel door with flush beaded and fielded panels topped by a single glazed panel in a beaded reveal. There is one step leading to a Pennant paved crossover with a cast iron footscraper. The basement has two six-over-six sashes in plain reveals with a continuous stone sill, and a 20th-century door in a timber screen with a three-pane overlight under the crossover, with no area steps. A double dormer with six-over-six sashes is present as well. The building has a band course over the ground floor, a modillion cornice, and a coped parapet that continues with No. 3 Spencer's Belle Vue. There is a lead hopper head and part lead downpipe to the left, shared between the two houses.
The rear elevation features a full height shallow segmental bow with two two-over-two sashes on the second floor and two two-over-two sashes in the dormer. The interior has not been inspected. Attached to the property are wrought iron railings with arrow heads on limestone bases.
Local climate
No. 4 and Attached Railings 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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