No. 21 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. 3 related planning applications.

No. 21 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
old-cupola-wind
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. 21 and Attached Railings, Bennett Street, BA1 2QL
OS grid reference
ST 749 653
Coordinates
51.38684, -2.3619
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house, built around 1775 (with a lease dated 1774), and later converted into flats in the 20th century. It was likely designed by Thomas Warr Atwood and developed by The Corporation of Bath and Richard Atwood. The front is faced with limestone ashlar, and the double-pile mansard roof is covered with Welsh slate to the front and artificial slate to the rear. The roof has a coped party wall with two stacks; the front stack is ashlar, while the rear is reconstituted stone and includes some early clay pots. A rear staircase is also present.

The house has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a three-window front. The first floor has three plate glass sash windows with horns, set within ovolo moulded architraves that feature splayed jambs with friezes and cornices. The sills are moulded stone and are supported by console brackets with wrought iron balconettes. The second floor mirrors this design, with plate glass sash windows in ovolo architraves. On the ground floor are two plate glass sash windows with splayed jambs and stone sills, alongside an eight-panel door with fielded panels and two glazed panels. The door has a cast iron lion's mask knocker within a cyma moulded architrave, featuring heavy moulded console brackets and a moulded cornice. A pennant paved crossover is flush with the pavement. The basement has two two-over-two sash windows, the window to the left now a two-over-one, protected by wrought iron guard bars with shaped heads. There's a cut-down five-panel door with a six-pane overlight, set within an ashlar infill, leading to C20 area steps. Two dormers house six-over-six sash windows. Further detailing includes a band course at ground floor level, a modillion eaves cornice, a coped parapet, a moulded lead hopperhead, and a partial lead downpipe.

The rear elevation is partially visible and includes a six-over-six sash window to the half landing and a two-over-two sash to the second floor, along with a lead hopperhead.

The interior remains uninspected. Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate, set on limestone bases with shaped heads.

Local climate

No. 21 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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