Axford's Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. Terrace houses. 21 related planning applications.
Axford's Buildings
- WRENN ID
- sunken-finial-onyx
- 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
- Terrace houses
- Address
- Axford's Buildings, 22-37, Paragon, BA1 5LY
- OS grid reference
- ST 750 654
- Coordinates
- 51.38777, -2.35978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Axford's Buildings is a sixteen-house terrace built between 1762 and 1773, designed by Joseph Axford, a stonemason. The terrace adjoins The Paragon and sits on a steeply sloping site at the rear. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar with double-pitched slate mansard roofs featuring dormers and moulded stacks to the party walls. They are arranged over three storeys with attics and basements, each house exhibiting a two-window range.
The external features include a continuous coped parapet, a cornice, a first floor sill band, and a ground floor platband. Moulded architraves feature above the upper floor windows, cornices grace the first floor windows flanking the central pedimented windows, and cornices sit over the doors to the right of each house. Originally fitted with six/six-pane sash windows, only basements retain these; the rest have been replaced with mostly plate glass sash windows. Nos. 28 to 32 were demolished in 1942 and have since been restored, with vertical toothing now visible.
At No. 33, "Siddons' House," a late 19th-century hood and coved cornice have been incorporated into the platband and architrave of the six-panel door (which is glazed to the top). A plaque commemorates Sarah Siddons, born in 1755 and died in 1831. No. 35 features plate glass sash windows to the basement and balconettes to the first floor windows. No. 36 has an open pediment supported by narrow engaged columns on pedestals, a roll-edge moulded architrave to the door, and a lead rainwater downpipe to the left. A full-height canted bay extends to the rear. No. 37, the left terminal, has an early 19th-century two-storey wing with a coped parapet, coved cornices over the first and ground floors, steps leading to a six-panel door with an overlight, and reeded architraves with block corners framing small-pane fixed windows on either side. Again, a full-height canted bay is present to the rear.
The interiors of the buildings were not inspected. Stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops are present within the structure.
Local climate
Axford's Buildings 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 — 14 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 21 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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