No. 5 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. 2 related planning applications.

No. 5 and Attached Railings and Vaults

WRENN ID
shadowed-clay-burdock
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
Address
No. 5 and Attached Railings and Vaults, Camden Crescent, BA1 5HY
OS grid reference
ST 749 656
Coordinates
51.38953, -2.36159
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 5 Camden Crescent is a house, later converted into flats, dating to approximately 1788, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was designed by John Eveleigh and forms part of the left wing of Camden Crescent. The front is built of limestone ashlar, painted at basement level, with rubble to the rear. The roof is a mansard style, with double Roman tiles to the upper slopes and Welsh slate (with some artificial slate to the rear) to the lower slopes. Two ashlar chimney stacks, incorporating some early clay pots, rise from the party wall on the left.

The house is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a four-window front. The first floor has four plate glass sash windows with horns, set in splayed reveals with lowered stone sills, three incorporating wrought iron balconettes. The second floor has four plate glass sash windows with horns, set in plain reveals with stone sills. The ground floor features three plate glass sash windows with horns in plain reveals with stone sills, a six-panel door with flush fielded panels and a glazed central panel (simulated double doors with a vertical bead), and a pedimented Doric doorcase. A small window is located in a plain reveal with a stone sill to the right of the door. Two steps lead to a pennant paved crossover with a wrought iron footscraper. The basement level has three six-pane sash windows with stone sills and a plank door with overlight, set within an ashlar infilling, below the crossover. A 20th-century staircase provides access to the vaults, which have two glazed openings. There are a double and a single dormer window, both with 20th-century glazing. Architectural details include a band course over the ground floor, a modillion eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. A fire insurance plate remains attached to the first floor.

The interior was partially documented in 1994. A basement room has been divided into two rooms; an original fireplace with an early Victorian grate is present, though the chimney breast is modern. Attached wrought iron railings and a gate, with shaped heads on limestone bases, are also part of the property.

Local climate

No. 5 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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