No. 7 and Attached Railings and Vaults 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. 4 related planning applications.

No. 7 and Attached Railings and Vaults

WRENN ID
small-alcove-pearl
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. 7 and Attached Railings and Vaults, Fountain Buildings, BA1 5DU
OS grid reference
ST 749 652
Coordinates
51.3858, -2.36089
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 7 is a house, later converted into flats, dating to approximately 1775, with 20th-century alterations. It may have been designed by John Wood the Younger. The front of the building is faced with limestone ashlar, while the left side is of rubble and render. A two-story limestone ashlar extension exists at the rear, topped by a mansard roof covered with Welsh slate. The roof also has coped gable and party walls, with early clay pots on the right side.

The house has three stories and a basement, presenting a five-window facade. The first floor has five plate glass sash windows with horns, set within splayed cyma moulded architraves featuring friezes and cornices, with a pediment centrally above. The second floor mirrors this design, with five similar sashes and stone sills. The ground floor also has five plate glass sash windows in plain reveals, with stone sills. A six-panel door with fielded panels is centrally located on the left, within a flat surround with a beaded reveal. The basement has a blocked window, lit by a grating in the pavement on the right, and a door hidden under a crossover. The vaults are not visible from the exterior, and there are modern area steps. Two double and two single dormers with plate glass sashes are visible in the roof. The front features a plinth on the right, a band course above the ground floor, a bracketed eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation is not visible.

The interior has not been inspected. Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped heads resting on limestone bases.

Historically, this group of double-fronted houses was built by William Philips and others, incorporating an earlier house. A plaque on No. 4 Fountain Buildings records a restoration carried out by Knightstone Housing Association in 1981.

Local climate

No. 7 and Attached Railings and Vaults 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 — 13 transactions since 1997
  • 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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