Blenheim House and Attached Railings 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. 3 related planning applications.
Blenheim House and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- riven-gallery-frost
- 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
- Blenheim House and Attached Railings, Henry Street, BA1 1JR
- OS grid reference
- ST 752 645
- Coordinates
- 51.3797, -2.35755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blenheim House, built in 1844 by Henry Underwood, was originally the Minister's house for the nearby New Church and is now used as an office. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof and features a double depth plan in a plain Classical style.
It stands three storeys high with a basement and is two windows wide. The ground floor includes a doorway with an unfluted Ionic porch to the right, a panelled door with a rectangular light above, and wrought iron area railings. Notably, the ground floor window is not aligned with the upper floor windows. All windows are late 19th-century plate glass sashes, simply designed and set within architrave surrounds. The first-floor windows are adorned with cornices supported by console brackets. The cornice, parapet, and roof are not visible from the front, but there is an ashlar stack with pots on the left side. The rear elevation is also made of ashlar and features a large tripartite sash on the ground and first floors, along with a plain sash for the staircase and second floor. The roof can be seen from the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Blenheim House 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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