1-4, Rochfort Place is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. Terrace houses. 5 related planning applications.
1-4, Rochfort Place
- WRENN ID
- rusted-screen-hawk
- 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
- Terrace houses
- Address
- 1-4, Rochfort Place, BA2 6PB
- OS grid reference
- ST 754 655
- Coordinates
- 51.38807, -2.35405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1-4, Rochfort Place, are a group of four terrace houses dating to approximately 1830. They were likely designed by John Pinch junior, and form part of the late Georgian development of Bathwick Street, following the construction of the Cleveland Bridge in 1827, and continuing Baldwin's earlier development. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with rubble to the rear, and have double-pitched slate roofs with moulded stacks to the party walls and gable ends.
The four storeys, including an attic, are topped by a coped parapet and attic cornice. No. 1, the rightmost house, is set slightly forward with a two-bay front. The windows are predominantly sash windows with a mix of glazing patterns: three/six-pane to the attic, six/six-pane to the second floor, nine/nine-pane to the first floor, and plate glass sashes to the ground floor. The ground floor features a platband supported by banded rustication. The name "ROCHEFORT PLACE" is carved in deeply chiselled Roman capitals on the platband. The right-hand door is a six-panel door with an oval overlight containing cobweb tracery; a plate glass sash window sits to the left. Nos. 2, 3, and 4 share a continuous front with similar detailing. Nos. 2 and 3 each have two-window fronts with paired doors and overlights; No. 2 has cast iron balconettes to the first floor, and No. 3 has a stack to the party wall. No. 4 has a three-window front with chamfered rustication, a similar door, and a plain overlight.
The interiors have not been inspected. Nos. 2 and 3 were converted into six and five flats respectively in 1987, while No. 4 was converted into five flats in 1983. Cast iron railings are set into stone kerbs along the front of the properties. The front elevations, in particular the large first-floor windows, are comparable to designs from the Pinch office on the Bathwick Estate.
Local climate
1-4, Rochfort Place 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 — 21 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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