Nos. 4 and 5 with Boundary Wall and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. Terrace house. 1 related planning application.

Nos. 4 and 5 with Boundary Wall and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
tilted-cinder-vale
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
Terrace house
Address
Nos. 4 and 5 with Boundary Wall and Gate Piers, Devonshire Buildings, BA2 4SP
OS grid reference
ST 746 635
Coordinates
51.3701, -2.36504
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A pair of terrace houses, dating from approximately 1800 to 1804, with alterations made in the late 19th century. They may have been designed by Charles Harcourt Masters. The buildings are constructed from limestone ashlar, with the ground floor painted on the north side, and have slate roofs.

The houses are double-depth, and accessed from the south side, but their principal elevation and garden face north. They are three storeys high, with two windows each, and feature a broad, blind central section. The second floor has plain tripartite sash windows. Above them are Venetian windows with glazing bars to No. 5, and plain windows to No. 4. The ground floor has single and paired sash windows, plain to No. 4 and twelve-pane to No. 5. Tuscan pillared and pedimented doorcases are present; No. 4 has an early door with arched glazed panels. The architecture includes channelled pilasters to the centre bays, a first floor platband, a frieze, a cornice, a blocking course, and a parapet. The hipped roof incorporates central and end ashlar stacks.

At the rear of No. 4 is a narrow, three-storey, parapeted wing with plain sashes in flush ashlar surrounds, constructed in coursed rubble, and a later two-storey range containing a six-panel door under a slab hood with a moulded edge, and brackets. A set-back main wall also has plain sashes. No. 5 features some twelve-pane sashes, and has a boundary wall with a door to a small enclosed yard, along with a three-storey narrow wing with large twelve-pane sashes above a paired nine-pane window set low to the right.

During an inspection by Bath Council in 1983, the interior of No. 4 was found to have a Georgian fireplace on the ground floor, decorated with garlands, and another Victorian console. The stairs have Victorian newel posts and slim moulded banisters. Georgian fireplaces are present on the first floor, and there are remains of a Georgian staircase to the top floor.

The north side has a full-width, coursed rubble wall approximately 1.8 meters high, with two pairs of rusticated ashlar piers to flat pyramid cappings, and a cast iron gate to No. 4. Lower walls also return at the party divisions. These buildings are part of a long, speculative row, displaying variations but retaining substantial original detail, particularly to the north elevations.

Local climate

Nos. 4 and 5 with Boundary Wall and Gate Piers 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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