Nos. 15, 15a, 16-21 (Consec) with Piers and 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. A Mid C19 Terrace houses. 4 related planning applications.
Nos. 15, 15a, 16-21 (Consec) with Piers and Railings
- WRENN ID
- strange-keep-sorrel
- 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 houses
- Address
- Nos. 15, 15a, 16-21 (Consec) with Piers and Railings, Charlotte Street, BA1 2ND
- OS grid reference
- ST 745 649
- Coordinates
- 51.38326, -2.36643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 15, 15A, 16-21 form a stepped terrace of eight houses, dating from the mid-19th century with alterations in the 20th century. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar, with concrete tile roofs, except for Nos. 15A, 16 and 20, which have slate roofs. The plan features a staircase and entrance on the left side, a deep plain ridge roof, and No. 15A is slightly higher and deeper than the others.
The houses are two storeys with an attic and a basement, appearing as a full three storeys to the rear. Each house has three windows above a single canted bay to the right, with plain sash windows. Nos. 15A and 17 have a single dormer, while Nos. 16 and 20 have two dormers each. No. 15, the end property, has an additional bay to the left. The basement windows are plain sashes, as are those on the ground floor. The canted bay has a cornice with a blocking course and a parapet. Each house has a four or six-panel door under a deep plain transom light, with a cornice hood supported by scroll consoles. A sill band, cornice, blocking course, and parapet sweep down at the party divisions, which are coped, with deep stacks except for No. 15A. No. 15 has a small square stack between bays one and two. Above the first-floor windows, there is a wide, shallow, sunk square frieze panel to each house.
The rear elevation is also in ashlar with eaves roofs, each containing two windows with various sashes, staggered, and with cantilevered extensions to all except No. 19. Interior inspections of Nos. 15A (in 1991) revealed that it had been converted to a surgery, with some features removed in the early 1990s. An inspection of No. 20 (in 1976) revealed an iron fireplace mantle and grates at the front, good front room rose and cornice details, and patterned, red-stained glass in the rear windows.
The houses are fronted by a low stone wall running along the street, with pairs of square stone piers and capping. The wall incorporates an ashlar return to the doorways and a front railing with alternate plain and hooped rails on a stone curb, enclosing the basement areas. This terrace is a late example of a Georgian design in Bath, largely unaltered externally, creating an interesting contrast with the terrace opposite. The irregular numbering likely indicates a later insertion, but this is not visible in the detailing.
Local climate
Nos. 15, 15a, 16-21 (Consec) with Piers and 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 — 9 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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