22, Westgate Buildings 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, shop. 1 related planning application.

22, Westgate Buildings

WRENN ID
ruined-railing-kestrel
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, shop
OS grid reference
ST 749 646
Coordinates
51.38022, -2.36163
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

22 Westgate Buildings is a house and shop dating from the late 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of limestone ashlar, painted on the ground floor, and features a double Roman tile roof. The building has a wide single depth plan and is positioned at the end of another terrace.

The exterior consists of three storeys and an attic, with three windows facing the street. There is a single blind window on the canted corner and one window on the return to Hot Bath Street. All windows are plain sashes, with the ones on the canted corner being blind. The ground floor has a panelled door with a small transom light in the centre bay. The shop entrance is located at the canted corner, flanked by shop windows on both sides. The shopfront is from the mid-19th century and remains largely unaltered. A platband is present at the first floor sill level, and there is a lintel, cornice, and parapet above the second floor windows. The mansard roof, which faces the street, has two dormers with plain sashes and another dormer on the return to Hot Bath Street. There is an ashlar stack with some pots on both ridges.

The end of the facade is toothed for the continuation of the terrace, but this would have required the demolition of Abbey Church House, which did not occur. As a result, the side wall, originally intended to be an internal party wall, was built of rubble and left unfinished. The interior has not been inspected. This building shares characteristics with other end-of-terrace improvements made by the City Architect, John Palmer.

Local climate

22, Westgate Buildings 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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