43, Milsom Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. Office. 3 related planning applications.
43, Milsom Street
- WRENN ID
- third-footing-fern
- 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
- Office
- Address
- 43, Milsom Street, BA1 1DN
- OS grid reference
- ST 749 650
- Coordinates
- 51.38368, -2.36119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
43 Milsom Street is a former house, now serving as the offices of the Royal Photographic Society. Built around 1765, it underwent alterations in 1980. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a double-pitched slate mansard roof with dormers and moulded stacks on the right side.
The exterior consists of three storeys with attics and a three-window range. It has a stepped coped parapet and a stopped modillion cornice. The second-floor windows are adorned with eared architraves, while the first-floor windows have lowered sills and moulded architraves, with cornices on the outer windows and a pediment above the center window. The plate glass sash windows have painted splayed reveals on the first floor, where "Circulating Library and Reading Room" is painted on the wall above. Fluted Ionic pilasters flank a 20th-century door, with a blocked overlight to the left and far right, and a moulded cornice and fascia above the 1980 shopfront on the right. Additionally, there is a well-crafted fluted lead rainwater head connected to a lead downpipe.
The interior has not been inspected, but it serves as the entrance to the Royal Photographic Society gallery located in the old Octagon Chapel. The house features a standard elevation, likely designed by Thomas Jelly, and the 1980 shopfront, created by Roy Worskett of the local planning authority, may incorporate elements from an early 19th-century shopfront, particularly the pilasters. The painted advertisement is a relatively rare survival and adds to the building's interest.
Local climate
43, Milsom 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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