The Retreat and Attached Walls and Gatepiers 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. 1 related planning application.
The Retreat and Attached Walls and Gatepiers
- WRENN ID
- hollow-spindle-sable
- 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
- The Retreat and Attached Walls and Gatepiers, Primrose Hill, BA1 2US
- OS grid reference
- ST 738 662
- Coordinates
- 51.39457, -2.37786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat, originally a public house, is a house that likely remodels an early 18th-century structure. It was altered in the early 19th century and has seen changes in the 20th century. The building features painted render over brick and has a double-pitched pantile roof with moulded stacks on the party walls, truncated to the right.
The exterior is two storeys high with a three-window range. A coped parapet rises at the ends to meet the stacks, and there is a hipped asbestos roof with a deep canopy on the first floor, supported by cast iron trellised columns and fronted by plain railings with lead ball ornaments. The floor above is supported by four Tuscan columns. The first floor has 20th-century French windows, while the ground floor features a door with four glazed panels at the top and roundels at the base, flanked by two/two-pane sash windows with splayed reveals and clasping Tuscan pilasters at the quoins.
The interior has not been inspected but is noted to have been altered. Attached to the right of the building is a brick-lined rubblestone wall, approximately 3 meters high and 20 meters long, which curves and ramps down to meet chamfered rusticated gatepiers that are also approximately 3 meters high, featuring a wrought iron overthrow that once supported an inn sign. The wall continues downhill to the left, connecting to a wall attached to Strumble Cottage.
Local climate
The Retreat and Attached Walls and Gatepiers 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 — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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