Shirley Cottage and Shirley Villa 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. 6 related planning applications.
Shirley Cottage and Shirley Villa
- WRENN ID
- south-railing-fog
- 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
- Address
- Shirley Cottage and Shirley Villa, Beechen Cliff Road, BA2 4QS
- OS grid reference
- ST 747 640
- Coordinates
- 51.37509, -2.36399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of symmetrical houses built in the early 19th century. They are constructed from roughly-layered lias stone, with ashlar stone detailing, rubble to the rear, and asbestos-cement slate roofs.
The houses are three stories high, each with two windows. The windows are sliding sash windows with glazing bars. The upper windows have twelve panes, while the ground floor windows have a single sixteen-pane lower section. The ground floor window of Shirley Villa is set within a wider opening with flush jambs, and a part-glazed door with a hood supported by brackets is located to its left. A two-story porch, with a sash window above a pair of glazed doors under a bracketed hood, is set back to the left of Shirley Cottage.
Architectural features include a mid-level band, moulded cornice, a blocking course, and a parapet all made of ashlar, along with a central chimney stack. The rear of Shirley Cottage is rendered and has sash windows on each floor. A narrow wing with a monopitch roof extends from the rear; it also has sash windows. The west end of this wing has double gables over paired sash windows with splayed surrounds, and single windows on each floor.
Shirley Villa has a rubble rear wall with dressed quoins. It features a plain sash window, and a smaller additional opening on the first and second floors. A large, flat-roofed extension is present at ground floor level. The party walls between the two houses are coped, with a central rear stack. An ashlar cornice, blocking course, and parapet run the full width of the rear. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
Shirley Cottage and Shirley Villa 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 — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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