4, 5 and 6, Old King Street 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.
4, 5 and 6, Old King Street
- WRENN ID
- ragged-zinc-quill
- 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
- OS grid reference
- ST 748 650
- Coordinates
- 51.38381, -2.36273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 4, 5, and 6 Old King Street are three terrace houses built around 1729, with 20th-century additions. They are part of a development by John Wood the Elder. The houses are constructed from limestone ashlar and feature double-pitched slate roofs with moulded stacks on the left and a truncated stack on the right of centre.
The exterior consists of five storeys with a basement, with each house having two windows across. Originally, there was a continuous coped parapet, a cornice, and a ground floor platband. The windows are six/six pane sash types, and each house has a six-panel door beneath shallow hoods supported by shaped consoles.
No. 4, located on the left, is painted and has white-painted reveals and sills. It features two/two pane sash windows on the second floor, lowered sills on the first floor, and plate glass windows on the remaining floors, with a six-panel door that is glazed at the top to the right.
No. 5 is also painted and has moulded architraves around the two/two pane sash windows on the second floor, with chamfered reveals for the horned six/six pane sashes on the other floors. The six-panel door, which is glazed at the top, is located to the left.
No. 6 remains unpainted, showing the jointing of the ashlar. It has a taller parapet, splayed reveals, and lowered sills for the six/nine pane sashes with balconettes on the first floor, while the rest are six/six pane sashes without horns. A 20th-century door is located to the right. Open joints indicate plain window surrounds, suggesting that originally all windows in the terrace had moulded architraves. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
4, 5 and 6, Old King Street 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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