No. 8 and Attached Railings 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. 2 related planning applications.
No. 8 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- iron-tin-ivory
- 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
- No. 8 and Attached Railings, Lansdown Road, BA1 5EE
- OS grid reference
- ST 748 656
- Coordinates
- 51.38928, -2.36278
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, dating to circa 1770, with an early 19th-century addition of a second floor. The front is faced with limestone ashlar, with a lower band of timbering beneath the cornice. The rear is a mix of ashlar and rubble construction. The roof is a mansard style with artificial slate covering, and features two ashlar chimney stacks to the left—the front stack retains some original clay pots, while the rear stack has been rebuilt without them. A coped party wall is on the right side.
The house is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a three-window front. The first floor has three six-over-six sash windows in architraves with stone sills. The second floor has two six-over-six sash windows in plain reveals with stone sills. The ground floor has two six-over-six sash windows to the left, a six-panel door with flush and glazed panels within an architrave with a frieze and pediment above, and a two-step approach to a Pennant paved crossover, which features a cast iron footscraper. The basement has two six-over-six sash windows, with a single opening pane to the upper sash on the left, and a 20th-century plank door in an ashlar infilling with a small window below the crossover, along with 20th-century area steps. The building has a moulded eaves cornice and a coped parapet. The rear elevation is in ashlar to the right, possibly a re-facing over rubble to the left, with a staircase on the left and a 20th-century extension in reconstituted Bath Stone to the second half-landing. A six-over-six sash window is present on the first floor, and a two-over-two horned sash is on the second floor. A 20th-century dormer window is also visible on the rear. The interior was not inspected.
Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate, set upon a low limestone wall. These constitute a subsidiary feature.
Local climate
No. 8 and Attached Railings 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 — 4 transactions since 2002
- 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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