No.20 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. House, flats. 2 related planning applications.
No.20 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- plain-pewter-heron
- 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
- House, flats
- Address
- No.20 and Attached Railings, Park Street, BA1 2TE
- OS grid reference
- ST 744 658
- Coordinates
- 51.39078, -2.36834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 and its attached railings are a pair of two houses, now converted into flats, dating from 1808. They were designed by John Pinch the Elder and are part of the Park Street development. The front facades are constructed from limestone ashlar, while the rear incorporates limestone ashlar and rubble. The roof is hidden behind a parapet, and the party walls are coped with brick and ashlar stacks to the left of each house.
Each house has four storeys and a basement, with a three-window front range. The first floor on the left side features three 19th-century plate glass windows with two-over-two sashes and wrought iron balconettes mirroring those found at No. 19 Park Street. The first floor to the right has three six-over-nine-pane sashes and similar balconettes. The second floor has three plate glass sashes; the third floor on the right has three matching windows. The ground floor to the left also has three plate glass sashes. The window to the right of the ground floor was formerly the doorway. To the right, a six-panel door features reeded and raised panels, a decorative fanlight with crown glass, and a single step to a pennant paved crossover with a cast iron footscraper. All basement openings have been blocked with ashlar, and the crossover and area steps to the former house on the left have been removed. Architectural details include band courses over the ground floors functioning as sill bands for the first-floor windows, sill bands to the second floors, friezes, moulded cornices over the second floors, moulded eaves cornices, and coped parapets. A wrought iron lampholder is positioned above the front door. Windows to the rear elevation are 19th century, except for the ground floor and the second-floor half-landing of the house on the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Attached to the front are wrought iron railings with shaped tops set on limestone bases. These houses are part of the incomplete St James's Square development, initially based on land leased from Sir Peter Rivers Gay in 1790. Upper Park Street was designed by John Palmer and later continued by John Pinch after 1808 but was not completed as originally planned, and the street formerly ended at All Saints Chapel.
Local climate
No.20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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