No 197, Including Front Boundary Wall to Road and Gatepiers is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1983. House.

No 197, Including Front Boundary Wall to Road and Gatepiers

WRENN ID
lesser-postern-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Constituency
Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1983
Type
House
Address
No 197, Including Front Boundary Wall to Road and Gatepiers, London Road East, Batheaston
OS grid reference
ST 779 674
Coordinates
51.40597, -2.31875
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 197 is a house dating from the late 18th century, constructed of ashlar with a slate roof featuring a coped raised verge and a moulded cornice. The building has two storeys and an attic with a dormer. It includes three windows with glazing bar sashes, and a 16-pane sash window on the ground floor. There is a modern door located to the right, which is set beneath an overlight. The property is accompanied by a rubble boundary wall and rusticated gatepiers. This house was the home of the pioneering geologist William Lonsdale, who is particularly noted for his work in distinguishing the Devonian System.

Local climate

No 197, Including Front Boundary Wall to Road and Gatepiers receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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