The Garth is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. Villa.
The Garth
- WRENN ID
- crooked-vestry-hemlock
- 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
- Villa
- Address
- The Garth, 151, Church Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 763 624
- Coordinates
- 51.36039, -2.34091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garth is a detached villa dating from the mid-19th century, located on the north side of Church Road in Combe Down. It is constructed from limestone ashlar with a slate roof. The building has a compact block shape featuring a double roof with gables and a central valley, along with a large later rear wing that includes a verandah over an open arcade.
The exterior is two storeys high with three plain sash windows. On either side of the central stone canted bay, which has a cornice and parapet, there is a central sash window on the first floor above an enclosed ashlar porch. This porch has a round arched entrance and small windows on the sides, an impost band, cornice, and parapet, along with a four-panel door and transom light. The main range features a coved cornice, blocking course, and parapet, with four ashlar stacks on the coped gable ends. At the rear, to the left, there is a deep gabled wing with a tent verandah supported by six fretted standards, above an ashlar arcade.
The interior has not been inspected. The Garth is part of a group of villas along the north side of Church Road, offering panoramic views over the countryside to the south.
Local climate
The Garth receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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