No. 5 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, flats. 3 related planning applications.
No. 5 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- knotted-portal-spindle
- 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, flats
- Address
- No. 5 and Attached Railings, Lansdown Road, BA1 5EE
- OS grid reference
- ST 748 656
- Coordinates
- 51.38917, -2.36247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 is a house that has been converted into flats, built around 1770 with a second floor added in the early 19th century and some later alterations. The front is made of limestone ashlar, which is painted up to the second floor sills, while the rear is also ashlar. The building features a double pile parapeted roof covered with artificial slate, and has a coped party wall with two truncated ashlar stacks on the left.
The house has three storeys and a basement, with a three-window front. On the first floor, there are three 20th-century canted oriel windows. The second floor has plate glass horned sashes set in plain reveals with stone sills, along with a similar blind window in the center. The ground floor features plate glass sashes on the left and right, set in 19th-century moulded architraves with stone sills. In the center, there is a 20th-century door within a 19th-century projecting stone porch that has a shouldered lintel and carved console brackets supporting a heavy moulded cornice that is recessed at the center front. The area in front is paved with pennant stone and is mostly filled in, except for gratings on the left and right that light two-light timber casements below, with four-pane casements above the transom.
There are remains of what appears to be a former eaves cornice over the first floor, with an offset in the wall above, and a moulded eaves cornice with a coped parapet. The former second floor sill band has been cut back and is only visible on the left return. The rear elevation has 19th and 20th-century windows, including a six/nine sash on the second half-landing, a six/six sash on the second floor left, and wrought iron balconettes on the first floor right and second half-landing. There are also French doors with border glazing on the ground floor, and a 19th-century ashlar extension up to the first half-landing. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
No. 5 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- 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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