Cambridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Cambridge House
- WRENN ID
- proud-obsidian-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Cambridge House, 3, Cambridge Place, BA2 6AB
- OS grid reference
- ST 756 641
- Coordinates
- 51.37623, -2.35133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cambridge House is a detached villa dating to around 1820, and attributed to the architect John Pinch. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a concrete tile roof. The building has a compact, block-like form with a low-pitched hipped roof, a side entrance leading to a central lateral staircase, and a lower wing attached to the rear left.
The main facade is two storeys and a lower ground floor, featuring three windows. A blind window is centrally placed on the first floor, with a painted illusion of a sash window at ground floor level. The ground floor windows are twelve-pane sashes with margin lights, floating cornices, and small balconettes. The lower ground floor features three wide twelve-pane sashes with square panes. Flat pilasters are located at each end, slightly recessed from the corners, and the eaves have a broad flat soffit with brackets. Chimney stacks are positioned on each side. The left return includes a centrally placed panelled door within pilasters and an entablature, accessed by a short flight of stone steps, alongside a twelve-pane sash window.
The interior has not been inspected. Cambridge House is part of a group of five similar, though slightly varied, villas built on a raised area above the street. It closely resembles numbers 1 and 2 in its front elevation, but lacks parapets.
Robert Bennett’s article, "The Last of the Georgian Architects of Bath," in Bath History IX (2002), page 101, provides further information.
Local climate
Cambridge House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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