16, 18 and 20, Wells Road 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.
16, 18 and 20, Wells Road
- WRENN ID
- waiting-bailey-elm
- 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
- OS grid reference
- ST 748 643
- Coordinates
- 51.37733, -2.36315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
16, 18, and 20 Wells Road are three houses built around 1820, arranged in a stepped row. They are constructed from limestone ashlar with slate roofs and feature a double depth plan under a wide gabled roof. The buildings are two storeys tall, with two lower ground floors due to the drop in the site from the street front. Each house has two windows, all of which are sash windows.
No. 16 has plain and blind lights on each level, with the first-floor window featuring a painted sixteen-pane design. It has a flush six-panel door, and to the right, there is a coped gable above a large ashlar block, with a square string course above the upper floor and a single plain sash window at four levels, along with an offset rubble plinth at the lowest floor.
No. 18 has good twelve-pane replacement windows and a near-central five-panel fielded door, with the top panel glazed. No. 20 is similar but features balconettes on the upper windows. Each house has a small plinth that meets the pavement on the left, a heavy stone cyma eaves cornice, and coped party divisions with kneelers. Nos. 16 and 18 share ashlar stacks. The rear of the houses is adjacent to a railway line and is not accessible.
The interiors have not been inspected. This group of houses is included for their group value. The road to Wells and Exeter was referred to as 'The New Road' on Chantry's 1793 plan of Bath.
Local climate
16, 18 and 20, Wells Road 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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