4 Princes Street 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. 3 related planning applications.
4 Princes Street
- WRENN ID
- outer-glass-onyx
- 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
- 4 Princes Street, BA1 1HL
- OS grid reference
- ST 747 648
- Coordinates
- 51.38251, -2.3639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
4 Princes Street is a mid-to-late 18th century house in a row. It is constructed of limestone ashlar, with a roof that is not visible. The building is similar in design to the adjoining number 3, but smaller in scale, and includes an arched throughway to the left, which was later raised to two floors. The main house is rectangular, with a bay to the left that is open to the splayed wall of that adjoining property.
The house has three storeys and a basement, displaying a facade of one plus three windows. The windows are sash, with six-pane glazing at the second floor and twelve-pane glazing to the first floor, all set within moulded architraves. Bay two is blind at each level. The ground floor incorporates a later oriel display window with a late 18th century fascia and cornice. To the right of this is a six-panel door set on three steps, and a wide pair of panelled doors within a flat elliptical arch, featuring a keystone, impost, and drip course. A platband is present at ground floor level in bay one, which is slightly stepped forward from the rest of the facade. A band sits on a moulded bed above the first floor, accompanied by a moulded cornice with a blocking course and a parapet swept down from the first bay. A deep and lofty ashlar stack is located to the left.
The interior of the building has not been inspected. Doors to the left open to a courtyard, now covered by added storeys. The courtyard's plan is trapezoidal and runs back at an acute angle to the street line, relative to the adjacent wall of number 3.
Local climate
4 Princes Street 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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