The Elms is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
The Elms
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-cinder-dawn
- 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
- Villa
- Address
- The Elms, Weston Park West, BA1 4AR
- OS grid reference
- ST 734 661
- Coordinates
- 51.39374, -2.38278
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elms is a large detached villa, now converted to apartments, dating to circa 1864 (first appearing in the Bath Directory for 1866). The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with a slate roof, featuring 20th-century dormers and decorative stacks. The plan is irregular, set on a sloping site and incorporating a large two-storey wing to the south-west.
The villa has three storeys and exhibits four windows to the south-west garden front and three windows to the south-east entrance front. It features plate-glass sash windows, a parapet, cornice, frieze, and a first-floor platband. The main entrance is located within a three-storey stair turret, which has tall domed finials, decorative piercing to the parapet, raised surrounds, keystones, and semicircular arches above the three-light second-floor windows and single first-floor windows, all flanked by similar windows on the main block. Rusticated quoins and architraves are present, with steps leading to a semicircular arched doorway. A raised courtyard with a conservatory is situated at the angle between the tower and the left side of the main block. The south-west front is three storeys high, with a full-height canted bay on the left side. The parapet is pierced with panels of three circles; the second-floor windows are level with the first-floor windows on the sloping site and are of a similar design. First-floor windows have flat arches and keystones up to the platband, with the central window of the bay being tripartite. The ground floor is fronted by an arcade, with a balustrade above forming a terrace to the first floor.
The interior has not been inspected. The house displays influences ranging from the Elizabethan to the Baroque periods, characteristic of its time, with the belvedere tower representing an Italianate feature and playing a key role in its picturesque design. The property was converted into flats in 1990, with an extension added at that time, as documented in Bath City Council planning files.
This building exhibits group value through its architectural style and context within the Weston Park area.
Local climate
The Elms 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 — 41 transactions since 1995
- 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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