Nos. 2 and 3 with Boundary Walls and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. Terrace houses. 1 related planning application.
Nos. 2 and 3 with Boundary Walls and Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- rusted-flint-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1975
- Type
- Terrace houses
- Address
- Nos. 2 and 3 with Boundary Walls and Gate Piers, Devonshire Buildings, BA2 4SP
- OS grid reference
- ST 746 635
- Coordinates
- 51.37002, -2.36529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of terrace houses, built around 1800-1804, possibly designed by Charles Harcourt Masters. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar, painted to the front, with slate roofs. They are double depth and arranged with a compact block, accessed from the south, but with the main elevation and garden facing north.
The houses are three storeys high, each with two windows. The windows are glazing bar sashes. The second floor has paired twelve-pane sashes, the first floor has three tripartite eight:twelve:eight pane sashes above paired sashes, and the ground floor features Venetian windows with three ten:fifteen:ten pane sashes. The ground floor also has a twelve-pane sash window, a glazed door within a pilaster doorcase with a pediment, paired twelve-pane sashes, and two pairs of casement glazed doors with transom lights. A platband, frieze, cornice, blocking course, and parapet run across the front. The right side has a hipped roof centred over three bays and a large central ashlar stack.
At the rear, No. 2 has narrow, three-storey parapeted wings flanking a recessed centre, with twelve-pane sashes and a panelled door in an arched opening with a plain fanlight. There’s a tall stair light. No. 3 has a similar wing to the right, featuring four-pane sashes and a panelled door within deep reveals, with a two-storey section set back and containing two four-pane sashes above a single window within a deeply splayed surround, and a boundary wall to the yard. Several stacks are present on this side.
The kitchen within No. 3, inspected by Bath Council in 1986, features flagged-stone floors and a cast iron oven. Victorian fireplaces are also present.
The north side has a full-width boundary wall constructed of regular coursed stone with a parapet, and paired gate piers with pyramidal cappings to No. 2 and a moulded capping to No. 3. A lower ashlar wall also returns at the party divisions. These houses are part of a long speculative row and retain substantial original detail, particularly to the north elevations.
Local climate
Nos. 2 and 3 with Boundary Walls and Gate Piers 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 — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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