No. 23 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. 11 related planning applications.

No. 23 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
gaunt-iron-heron
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
Address
No. 23 and Attached Railings, Bennett Street, BA1 2QL
OS grid reference
ST 749 653
Coordinates
51.38684, -2.3617
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a three-storey house with an attic and basement, built around 1775, and later converted into flats during the 20th century. It was likely designed by Thomas Warr Atwood and developed by The Corporation of Bath and Richard Atwood. The front of the house is faced with limestone ashlar, while the rear has a combination of ashlar and rubble construction. It features a mansard roof with Welsh slate to the front and artificial slate to the rear.

The house has a symmetrical three-window facade. The first floor has three plate glass sash windows with ovolo moulded architraves, friezes and cornices, supported by console brackets and wrought iron balconies. The second floor has a similar arrangement of sash windows. On the ground floor, there are two sash windows to the left and a substantial eight-panel door with a six-pane overlight to the right, set within a moulded architrave. The basement includes two sash windows and a door with a six-pane window in the surrounding ashlar. A pennant paved crossover with a central slab leads to the pavement, featuring a cast iron footscraper. A double dormer window is situated on the roof. Architectural details include a band course over the ground floor, a modillion eaves cornice, a coped parapet, a lead hopperhead, and a lead downpipe.

The rear elevation shows two and three-light sash windows, with a wrought iron balcony on the second half-landing. The interior has not been inspected, and a coped party wall adjoins the property on both sides, each featuring an ashlar stack with early clay pots. The stack on the right is shared with No. 24 Bennett Street. Attached to the front are wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped heads on limestone bases.

Local climate

No. 23 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 11 applications
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  • 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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