Wakefield Cottage, with Boundary Wall 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. 2 related planning applications.

Wakefield Cottage, with Boundary Wall

WRENN ID
stark-plinth-fern
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
Wakefield Cottage, with Boundary Wall, Woodfield Cottage, 260, Bloomfield Road, BA2 2AZ
OS grid reference
ST 739 629
Coordinates
51.36469, -2.37619
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodfield Cottage, formerly known as Wakefield Cottage, is a Gothick house located to the north of Bloomfield Crescent, dating from around 1800. The building is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a double Roman tile roof.

The house has a T-shaped plan with a wider front facing the road and a projecting central bay on the north-west slope. The front elevation is three storeys high, while the rear has three storeys plus a lower ground floor facing west. The road front includes two twelve-pane sash windows, although there are blind lights painted on the left side at the second and ground floors, and a broad six-pane sash window on the lower right. A centrally placed 20th-century door is set beneath a slab hood with reeded edges. The façade is decorated with two platbands, a thin cornice, and a crenellated parapet that steps up to the right, along with coped gables featuring ashlar stacks atop hipped roofs. The right side of the building has a narrow gable end with platbands, which then steps back to a wing containing paired nine-pane sashes under an ogee lintel, along with a pair of painted blind lights. The rear range is splayed back and includes a terrace at mid-height.

The boundary wall to the right is made of coursed stonework with plain coping, ramping down and rising from approximately 3 to 4 metres in height.

This picturesque house is designed to take full advantage of its prominent hillside location. The architect Masters, who designed Bloomfield Crescent, may have contributed to its design, as he is known for creating Gothick houses in other locations.

Local climate

Wakefield Cottage, with Boundary Wall 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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