Gay's Cottage 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.
Gay's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-floor-finch
- 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
- Gay's Cottage, Camden Road, BA1 5JL
- OS grid reference
- ST 751 659
- Coordinates
- 51.39212, -2.35884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gay's Cottage is a mid-18th century house located on the south side of Camden Road, attached on the left to Belgrave Cottage. The site slopes down to the right at the corner of Camden Road and Gays Hill. The building is constructed of painted limestone ashlar and features a single-pitched slate roof with rendered stacks at the center ridge and rear gable end.
The house has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high with a lower ground floor, presenting a single window range. A coped parapet rises over the gable ends at both the front and rear, and a cornice along with a ground floor platband spans three sides. The windows are six-over-six pane sash windows with horns. On the first floor, there is one window to the left above a six-panel door that is glazed at the top, featuring raised and fielded panels in a painted stone doorcase with engaged Tuscan columns. To the right, there is another window. The right return of the building has a two-window range with delicate balconettes on both the first and ground floors, and to the right, there is a parapeted canted bay on the ground and lower ground floors. At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Gay's Cottage 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 — 2 transactions since 2003
- No related consent applications matched
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