Somerset House 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. 2 related planning applications.
Somerset House
- WRENN ID
- first-alcove-plover
- 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
- Somerset House, Sion Hill, BA1 2UF
- OS grid reference
- ST 743 660
- Coordinates
- 51.39266, -2.37034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Somerset House is a detached villa dating to around 1793, with 20th-century additions. It was designed by John Palmer. The house is constructed of limestone ashlar with a 20th-century slate roof and dormers. It is originally three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and originally had a single window facing the front. A 20th-century wing extends to the east. The south facade features a wide, full-height segmental bay containing a Venetian window with six panes to each sash, flanked by four/four-pane sashes on each floor. The first-floor window has a continuous balconette. The facade has a returned coped parapet and modillioned cornice, along with sill bands to the second floor and a plat band to the ground floor. The rear of the left return is in rubblestone with freestone dressings to tripartite sash windows, and includes six/six-pane sash windows over a blocked doorway. The interior of the house has not been inspected. The property is set within a forecourt contained by a rough ashlar revetment wall that sweeps and steps down from the left, curves at the corner, and spans the front to meet tall gate piers with square domed caps on the right. There are 20th-century gate and railings. Historical records suggest the house was intended to be the terminal building of an incomplete terrace.
Local climate
Somerset 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 — 5 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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