Nos. 15 and 16 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. Terrace houses. 2 related planning applications.

Nos. 15 and 16 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
leaning-thatch-saffron
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
Terrace houses
Address
Nos. 15 and 16 and Attached Railings, New King Street, BA1 2BL
OS grid reference
ST 745 648
Coordinates
51.38242, -2.36671
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 15 and 16 are a pair of terrace houses dating from 1764 to 1770, with alterations around 1840. They are constructed of limestone ashlar with slate roofs. These are generous town houses, characterised by double mansard roofs and doorways leading to a side entry and staircase.

The houses are three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and each has a single bay. All the windows are sash windows. Both houses have two twelve-pane dormers above tripartite windows. Number 15 has an eight:twelve:eight-pane sash window at each of the three upper levels; the first-floor window has a wide balconette, and the ground-floor window is within a splayed surround, with two twelve-pane windows in the basement. Number 16 has plain sash windows, with the first-floor window being Venetian in style, featuring a central round-headed sash with intersecting bars to the head and a full-width balconette; it also has two twelve-pane windows in the basement. Each house features a six-panel door with an architrave and closed pediment on pilasters with consoles. There is a platband above the ground floor, a modillion cornice with a blocking course, and a parapet, with coped party divisions and a stack at each end. Each end has a lead downpipe and a visible straight joint in the masonry. The rear elevation has various sash windows with glazing bars.

The interiors have not been inspected. Simple iron railings on a stone curb enclose the basement areas. The staggered building history of the row is revealed in the external fabric; the full terrace demonstrates a broad consistency of detail, but with variations in elevations, built in small sections, marked by straight joints. The ornately Grecian and Soanian-style elevation with a porch to No. 24 has been attributed to Edward Davis, a pupil of Sir John Soane.

Local climate

Nos. 15 and 16 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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  • Sale history — 28 transactions since 1996
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