Prospect Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. Terrace house.

Prospect Cottage

WRENN ID
endless-nave-linden
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
Terrace house
Address
Prospect Cottage, James Street West
OS grid reference
ST 744 648
Coordinates
51.38251, -2.36792
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Prospect Cottage is a detached terrace house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a double Roman tile roof. The house has a double depth narrow frontage with a central valley.

The exterior consists of two floors and one window. The large twenty-pane sash window is located above a sixteen-pane window, both set in a slightly stepped forward central bay and topped with a segmental head, flush surround, and keystone. To the right of the windows is a flush four-panel door beneath a plain fanlight, accessed by one step, while to the left is a corresponding blind arched recess. The building includes a listel, frieze, cornice, blocking course, and parapet. The left return is plain, featuring coped parapets and a tall two-stage front stack, with the rear stack having been cropped. The front roof is hipped to the right.

The interior has not been inspected. Prospect Cottage is a modest survivor located at the rear of grand houses on New King Street.

Local climate

Prospect Cottage 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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