40, Sydney Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.
40, Sydney Buildings
- WRENN ID
- wild-rubblework-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- 40, Sydney Buildings, BA2 6DB
- OS grid reference
- ST 758 645
- Coordinates
- 51.37978, -2.34794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, built around 1820, forming the left-hand end of an irregular terrace that backs onto the Kennet and Avon canal. It is constructed of painted limestone ashlar with an unseen roof and moulded stacks to the right party wall. The building follows a double-depth plan.
The two-storey house, with a lower ground floor to the rear, has a two-window front. It steps slightly forward from the adjacent building at number 39, although the parapet, cornice, first floor sill band, and ground floor platband are continuous. The ground floor exhibits banded rustication with radial voussoirs and slightly dropped keystones over flat arched recesses. There are six/six-pane sash windows, with balconettes to those on the first floor. To the left is a shallow, blocked overlight with a lozenge panel and reeded lintel over a five-panel door with glazing to the top.
The interior, which was recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust in 1990, includes a cantilevered stone staircase with a mahogany handrail. Other features of note are the alcoves or cupboards flanking the ground floor chimneypieces, scrolled foliate plasterwork to the drawing room cornice, reeded architraves with paterae roundels to the corners, and six-panel doors. Most of the fireplaces have been blocked. A dining room in the lower ground floor retains a stone chimneypiece and a scrolled plaster cornice.
A design matching this elevation was submitted to the Bathwick Estate Office in 1820.
Local climate
40, Sydney Buildings 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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