Lansdown House is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
Lansdown House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-lime-sorrel
- 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
- House
- Address
- Lansdown House, Church Road, BA1 4BT
- OS grid reference
- ST 730 662
- Coordinates
- 51.395, -2.38804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lansdown House dates from before 1706, and was remodelled around 1830 and in the late 19th century, with 20th-century additions. It is attached to the left of Vine House. The house is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, rendered to the third floor, with freestone dressings. The front has a slate roof, while the rear has double Roman clay tiles. The building plan features a three-unit through passage, a two-storey late 19th-century wing to the right, rear additions, and a stable wing to the rear right.
The external appearance is of a symmetrical four-storey and cellar building with a three-window front. A returned coped parapet, cornice, frieze, and first-floor sill course continue those of Vine House. It has plate glass sash windows, and a first-floor French window in the centre, which mimics an earlier design from around 1739 at No.30 Church Street. The ground floor features an ashlar projection with tripartite windows either side of half-glazed double hardwood doors, which include elaborate diagonal glazing bars and margin lights. Above this projection is a cast iron balcony with a 20th-century swept canopy. The late 19th-century two-storey east wing has rusticated quoins and a full-height canted bay with a pierced stone parapet, cornice and sunblind hoods to the first floor. The rear has 19th-century windows and a cobbled stable yard.
Inside, a circa 1830 closed-string staircase, with an open well, has a mahogany handrail and late 19th-century turned balusters. A room on the ground floor right has an early 19th-century cornice and a white marble fireplace flanked by segmental arched recesses. The hall features a polychromatic tile floor and a full set of servants' bells.
Local climate
Lansdown House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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