No. 18 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. House, flats.
No. 18 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- gilded-ledge-tallow
- 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
- House, flats
- Address
- No. 18 and Attached Railings, Bennett Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 748 653
- Coordinates
- 51.38679, -2.36223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18 is a house, now converted into flats, dating from around 1775, with a lease dated 1774. It was likely designed by Thomas Warr Atwood. The front is made of limestone ashlar, while the rear is not visible. The building features a double pile parapeted mansard roof, covered in Welsh slate at the front and concrete tile at the rear. There is a coped party wall with two ashlar stacks, some of which have early clay pots, positioned back-to-back with the stacks of No. 17 Bennett Street. A staircase is located at the rear.
The exterior consists of three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a three-window front. The first floor has three nine-over-nine horned sash windows set in splayed ovolo moulded architraves, complete with friezes and cornices. These windows have lowered moulded stone sills on console brackets and are accompanied by wrought iron balconettes. To the right, there is a six-panel door featuring four fielded panels and a single glazed panel, framed in a cyma moulded architrave with a flat surround. Heavy moulded console brackets support a moulded cornice that forms a hood over the door. The pennant-paved crossover is flush with the pavement and includes a 19th-century cast iron footscraper. The basement has two six-over-six sash windows in plain reveals with stone sills, and a 20th-century door under the crossover. The limestone area steps have pennant inserts on the treads and a wrought iron handrail. There are one double and one single dormer, both with six-over-six horned sashes. The building features a band course above the ground floor, a modillion eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The partially visible rear elevation includes a full-height canted bay with six-over-six sash windows on the second floor, as well as plate glass sashes in the double and single dormers.
The interior has not been inspected. The property also includes attached wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped heads on limestone bases. These houses were developed by The Corporation of Bath and Richard Atwood, designed by Thomas Warr Atwood, and built by Robert Wheeler.
Local climate
No. 18 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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