Sion House and Attached Walls and Gatepiers is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. Villa.

Sion House and Attached Walls and Gatepiers

WRENN ID
ragged-stone-dew
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
Villa
Address
Sion House and Attached Walls and Gatepiers, 8, Sion Hill, BA1 2UH
OS grid reference
ST 741 660
Coordinates
51.39279, -2.37263
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sion House is a detached villa built around 1805, with additions from the 20th century, likely designed by John Pinch. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a hipped slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan and stands three storeys high, including an attic and lower ground floor. The entrance front is symmetrical with three windows and is adorned with a coped parapet, cornice, and a ground floor platband that encircles the structure. Steps lead up to a central six-panel door, which has margin panes and a large fanlight with decorative glazing bars radiating from a small semicircle. The villa has tall six-over-six pane sash windows and paired dormers in the mansard roof. The garden front showcases a full-height three-window bow with balconettes on the first and ground floors, while the lower ground floor is faced with rough ashlar.

There is a rubblestone wall approximately 3 meters high that extends eastward along Sion Hill for about 15 meters, meeting coped rough ashlar walls that curve into tall ashlar gatepiers. These gatepiers feature cornices, block tops, and a segmental arched overthrow that supports a projecting lamp bracket. The gates are from the 20th century. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Sion House and Attached Walls and Gatepiers 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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