No. 15 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. A C18 House. 4 related planning applications.
No. 15 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- brooding-alcove-twilight
- 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
- No. 15 and Attached Railings, Alfred Street, BA1 2QX
- OS grid reference
- ST 748 652
- Coordinates
- 51.38574, -2.36274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 15 is a house, now converted into flats, built between 1773 and 1775. It was altered in the 19th and 20th centuries and is probably the work of John Wood the Younger. Constructed as an end-of-terrace house, it is double-pile with a staircase to the rear.
The front of the building is faced with limestone ashlar, while the rear is a combination of ashlar and rubble. The roof is a mansard, hipped to the right, and covered with large Welsh slates to the front and Welsh slates to the rear. It has coped party and gable walls to the left and right, with two ashlar stacks to the left. The front facade has three bays and is three stories high, with an attic, basement, and sub-basement. The first floor has three plate glass windows with splayed, cyma moulded architraves, friezes, cornices, and lowered stone sills on cut down console brackets. The second floor has three six/six sash windows with similar architraves and stone sills. The ground floor has two plate glass sashes to the left with stone sills and a continuous flat-arch lintel over both. To the right is a six-panel door with reeded and fielded panels, a single glazed panel, and a 19th-century cast iron wreath knocker, set within a stone doorcase with splayed reveals and a projecting moulded cornice. The door is accessed by four steps to a pennant paved crossover with a 19th-century cast iron footscraper. The basement has two six/six sashes to the left and an altered opening to the sub-basement to the right. No area steps are present. The rear elevation has a 19th-century ashlar extension and a 20th-century dormer.
The interior remains uninspected. Attached to the front are wrought iron railings with shaped heads on limestone bases, with an urn finial to the right. The building is part of the northward expansion of Bath, associated with the construction of the Assembly Rooms. It shares a lead downpipe and an opening to the area with No. 14 Alfred Street.
Local climate
No. 15 and Attached Railings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- 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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