No. 3 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. 3 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- sacred-floor-swift
- 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. 3 and Attached Railings, Ainslie's Belvedere
- OS grid reference
- ST 749 655
- Coordinates
- 51.38877, -2.36131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 3 Ainslie's Belvedere is a house, likely built around 1806. It is constructed of limestone ashlar, painted to the front, with rubble stone to the rear, and has a double-pile, parapeted roof covered with Welsh slate to the front, although the rear covering is not visible. There are two ashlar chimney stacks, one with some early clay pots. The property has a front staircase.
The house is two storeys and a basement, with a two-window front. The first floor has two six/six sash windows, the left-hand window having horns and set slightly lower than the right. The ground floor features a six/six horned sash window with a simple balconette to the right and a three-panel door with two moulded panels, the upper panel featuring an applied moulding forming a diamond pattern, along with a wrought iron wreath knocker and small glazed panel at the top. The door is located within a stone porch with reeded stone sides and a timber cornice under a flat stone hood. A cast iron footscraper is present. The basement has an eight/eight sash window and a plank door with an overlight, concealed by a sloping grating covering the area in front of the vaults. A band course runs over the ground floor, and a moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet match those of No. 2 Ainslie's Belvedere. The rear elevation has six/six horned sash windows and a lead hopperhead and downpipe on the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Attached to the property are wrought iron railings with shaped heads on limestone bases. Historical records suggest William Ainslie was a lessee of a house in The Circus. The Bath Chronicle reported an auction of the estate known as Ainslie’s Belvedere in 1794. While initially dated to 1780, this house and No. 3 appear to be later additions to the original row of six houses, numbers 4 to 9, based on a date stone.
Local climate
No. 3 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 2010
- 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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