Bathwick Lodge is a Grade II* listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. A Georgian Villa. 10 related planning applications.
Bathwick Lodge
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-copper-bracken
- 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
- Villa
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Bathwick Lodge, 1, Bathwick Hill, BA2 6EP
- OS grid reference
- ST 759 647
- Coordinates
- 51.38147, -2.34643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Villa. Built in 1825, with extensions in 1840 and the late 19th century, it was likely designed by John Pinch the Elder. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with a slate roof, featuring moulded stacks on the inside left and right, and to the right wing. The original plan was double depth and symmetrical, with five window bays.
The exterior features a returned coped parapet, cornice, frieze, and a moulded ground floor string course. First-floor windows are six-pane sashes, while the attic and ground floor have plate glass sashes. The central range projects slightly, with the parapet rising as a low, unmoulded pediment. The parapet and cornice also project over full-height pilasters that flank the three central windows and interrupt the ground floor string course. A ground floor window on the left is set in a flat-arched recess. The door in the right-hand range balances the design, featuring a narrow overlight and a cornice on consoles. The right wing, added in 1840, is two storeys high at the rear and single-storey at the front, both with cornices, and includes a plate-glass tripartite window on the ground floor.
The interior entrance hall has a concave wall to the left with six-panel doors leading to the two central rooms, and features a key pattern frieze. The front centre room has a vine frieze to the ceiling, while the rear centre room has a foliate scroll frieze and semicircular arched recesses flanking a white marble fireplace with reeded lintel and jambs. The 1840 room to the right has a segmental barrel-vaulted ceiling. The staircase, originally located against the right return, now has an early 19th-century wreathed mahogany handrail with late 19th-century cast iron balusters.
Additional features include a stone front wall with pier tops shaped like small pediments. The house is one of the finest late Georgian villas on Bathwick Hill and underwent extensive renovation in 2002. Drawings for this and other nearby houses were sourced from the Darlington Estate Office, where Pinch served as surveyor.
Local climate
Bathwick Lodge receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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