20 and 21, Old Bond 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. House. 6 related planning applications.
20 and 21, Old Bond Street
- WRENN ID
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- 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
- House
- Address
- 20 and 21, Old Bond Street, BA1 1BP
- OS grid reference
- ST 749 649
- Coordinates
- 51.38321, -2.36143
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
20 and 21 Old Bond Street are two end-of-terrace houses that also serve as shops and offices, dating from around 1760. They are constructed from limestone ashlar and feature slate roofs. The properties are deep, double-depth buildings with mansard roofs, designed in the style typical of John Wood's domestic terraces.
The exterior consists of three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with each house having three windows on the main floors. The windows are all sash types, framed in moulded architraves, and feature cornice hoods above the first floor. The second and fifth bays have triangular pediments. Each house has two dormers; No. 20 has plain dormers, while No. 21's dormers have bars. The second floor windows are twelve-pane, and the first floor windows are plain.
No. 20 has a mid-19th century, altered projecting shopfront beneath a deep projecting entablature with a modillion cornice. To the right, there is a three-panel door with a deep transom light. No. 21, which is indicated as a bank on the Ordnance Survey map, features an early 20th-century triple-arched ground floor made of polished grey granite, with a central door. The channelling of the granite continues to the voussoirs, and the detail extends to five bays on the return side, all under a cornice and a deep band below the first-floor sill band. The modillion cornice and blocking course extend from the adjacent No. 19 and continue around the return to Quiet Street, where there are five bays. The high attic has a central four-pane sash and two blind lights on each side, above two twelve-pane windows and three painted-in windows. The first floor has three plain windows and two blind windows, matching the detail of the main front but without pediments. The granite ground floor has an additional arched bay to the right. Coped party divisions are present to the left of each house, along with deep ashlar stacks. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
20 and 21, Old Bond 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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