39 and 40, Bathwick Hill 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. 4 related planning applications.
39 and 40, Bathwick Hill
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-pilaster-pigeon
- 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
- 39 and 40, Bathwick Hill, BA2 6LD
- OS grid reference
- ST 759 648
- Coordinates
- 51.3821, -2.34642
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of symmetrical semi-detached houses built around 1827, likely designed by John Pinch. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with a hipped slate roof, featuring moulded stacks to the party wall and sides. They have double-depth plans with single-depth ranges on each side.
The external appearance is characterised by three storeys and a basement. Each house presents a two-window front, with a coped parapet, cornice, frieze, and a ground floor platband running around the building. The ground floor of the central block features banded rustication. The second floor has six/six pane sash windows. A two-storey segmental bay is present in the main central block, with a cornice and frieze. Paired Tuscan pilasters flank full-height tripartite sash windows, the first-floor window featuring a trellised balconette. A prostyle porch, set back at the angle of the houses, is supported by Ionic pillars in antis, topped with a balustraded parapet, sheltering a six/six pane sash window. The front doors are panelled with two vertical panels each. The bay to the right (No. 39) has a balustraded parapet with ornamented piers above the pilasters and four/four pane tripartite sash windows. The bay to the left (No. 40) incorporates a lower three-storey wing with a coped parapet and no cornice, with plate glass in the tripartite windows.
The interior of No. 39, as documented by the Bath Preservation Trust, includes an inner hall with a segmental fanlight, a cantilevered stone staircase with a mahogany handrail, high-quality original plasterwork, and reeded door architraves. Many of the fireplaces have been replaced.
Local climate
39 and 40, Bathwick Hill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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