Nos. 1-5 (Consec) and Attached Area 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. 1 related planning application.

Nos. 1-5 (Consec) and Attached Area Railings

WRENN ID
twisted-fireplace-coral
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. 1-5 (Consec) and Attached Area Railings, Kensington Place, BA1 6AW
OS grid reference
ST 757 659
Coordinates
51.39235, -2.35062
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 1-5 are a row of five terrace houses built around 1795, with 19th-century additions, designed by John Palmer. The houses are constructed from limestone ashlar and feature double-pitched slate mansard roofs with paired dormers and moulded stacks on the party walls. They are three storeys tall, with attics and basements, and each house has a two-window range. The exterior includes coped parapets, cornices, friezes, and ground floor platbands.

Nos. 1-4 have six-over-six pane sash windows, and to the right of each house is a stone Tuscan doorcase with engaged columns, an entablature, and a pediment, along with six-panel doors that are glazed at the top with small windows to the right. No. 5, which is attached to a chapel, features late 19th-century plate glass sash windows. The right-hand range of houses is slightly stepped forward and has tripartite windows. The left-hand range, which is attached to the chapel, has a single window above a wide flattened segmental arch supported by Tuscan pilasters, with a wrought iron lamp bracket in the center. The entrance is set back to create a small courtyard that shelters the entrance to the chapel.

Most of the houses have well-preserved area railings. The terrace was designed to complement a prominent central chapel created by John Palmer for John Jelly, who was an attorney and clerk to the parish of Walcot. Nos. 1-5 were affected by a bomb blast during World War II. Nos. 1-3 were listed on August 11, 1972.

Local climate

Nos. 1-5 (Consec) and Attached Area 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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