Archway to Guildhall Car Park is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Archway.
Archway to Guildhall Car Park
- WRENN ID
- final-stone-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- Archway
- Address
- Archway to Guildhall Car Park, Orange Grove
- OS grid reference
- ST 751 648
- Coordinates
- 51.38192, -2.3583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The archway to the Guildhall car park was built in 1893 by John McKean Brydon. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a carriage arch flanked by foot arches, designed in the style of a Venetian window. The archway serves as a decorative Baroque addition to the expanded town hall complex. It includes a pierced rusticated wall with an attached Roman Doric order, featuring blocked rustication on the half columns. The central opening is semicircular-headed, with square-headed side openings and keyed circular openings above each. The design is completed with a triglyph frieze, a modillion cornice, and a balustraded parapet. This archway connects the Guildhall yard to the contemporary Municipal Buildings, also designed by Brydon, and the Central Police Station, designed by Major Charles Davis, the City Architect.
Local climate
Archway to Guildhall Car Park 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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