124 and 126, Walcot Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1972. A C1880 Shop with accommodation. 6 related planning applications.
124 and 126, Walcot Street
- WRENN ID
- bitter-basalt-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1972
- Type
- Shop with accommodation
- Address
- 124 and 126, Walcot Street, BA1 5BG
- OS grid reference
- ST 751 654
- Coordinates
- 51.38771, -2.35902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
124 and 126 Walcot Street are a pair of shops with accommodation above, built around 1880, featuring a 18th-century wing at the rear and 20th-century additions. The buildings are constructed from limestone ashlar and have a hipped pantile roof. They have a double depth plan with a long rear addition.
The exterior presents a symmetrical appearance with two storeys and Venetian windows on the first floor, which are set between pilasters. A coped parapet and cornice step over the pilasters at the center and sides, creating slightly recessed panels with curved upper corners on each upper floor. The plate glass sashes of the Venetian windows have stone mullions with paterae on the friezes. No. 124, located on the right, features a moulded semicircle above the central light. The pilasters extend to the ground floor, where they have Composite capitals that support a cornice and fascia, with blocks at the centers and plinths. Similar pilasters flank the former doors and shop windows, totaling six in all.
At the rear right of the building, there is a blocked mid-18th-century single entrance bay with engaged Doric columns that support a heavy lintel. Above this entrance, at the first floor level, is a shouldered architrave surrounding a blind window, with a square blind window above it within an architrave. A 20th-century attic storey window is also present. The rear features a returned cornice, a sill to a blocked second-floor window, a first-floor platband, a cornice to a former first-floor window, and a 20th-century window and door at the ground floor.
The interiors have been much altered and the building currently operates as a toy shop. Historically, these buildings were occupied by the Bath Cold Storage and Ice Company until the mid-1970s, with the ground floor used for meat storage. No. 126 was listed on 5th August 1975.
Local climate
124 and 126, Walcot Street 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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