The stone facade of 12 Cavendish Terrace, a Georgian house with three storeys of sash windows

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12 Cavendish Terrace

Lansdown, Bath BA1 — a Grade II listed terrace house on the west side, with the garden and the light both facing away from the road.

Guide price £1,650,000 Freehold
Bedrooms
5
Bath / shower
3
Internal area
3,410 sq ft
Council tax
Band G
EPC
D

01 — The house

Five floors, counting
the vaults

Photographed in March, mid-morning, with nothing moved and nothing added.

Cavendish Terrace was finished in 1817 and number 12 has been in one family since 1974, which is why the joinery, the shutters and the two marble chimneypieces are all still here. It has been maintained rather than modernised, and it shows in the best sense.

The drawing room runs the full width of the first floor with three sashes onto the terrace and a ceiling height of just over three metres. Below it, the hall opens to a morning room and then to the kitchen, which was extended into the rear vault in 2009 under listed building consent and now opens directly onto the walled garden.

Five bedrooms sit across the second and third floors. The principal bedroom faces west across the city; on a clear evening you can see as far as Kelston Round Hill. The garden is 68 feet, walled on three sides, with a stone workshop at the far end currently used as a studio.

Parking is on a residents’ permit. The house is listed Grade II as part of the terrace group.

The first floor drawing room with three sash windows and a marble chimneypiece Drawing room, first floor

02 — Floorplan

Ground and first

Measured on site, not scaled from the deeds. Second and third floor plans are in the printed particulars.

Ground floor plan of 12 Cavendish TerraceEntrance hall, morning room, kitchen and garden room, cloakroom.Morning room5.8 × 4.4 mEntrance hallKitchen /garden room7.1 × 4.0 mCloaks
Ground floor
First floor plan of 12 Cavendish TerraceDrawing room, study, bathroom and landing.Drawing room8.2 × 4.6 mLandingStudy4.1 × 3.6 mBathroom
First floor
Total 3,410 sq ft / 316.8 sq m Ceiling heights 3.1 m ground, 3.4 m first Not to scale

03 — Where it sits

Eleven minutes
from the abbey

Walking times measured at an unhurried pace, uphill on the way back.

Cavendish RoadJulian RoadGreat Pulteney StRoyal Victoria ParkHedgemeadLansdown12 Cavendish Terrace
  • The Royal Crescent4 min
  • The Circus6 min
  • Royal Victoria Park5 min
  • Bath Abbey and the centre11 min
  • Bath Spa station18 min
  • Royal High School9 min

Bath Spa runs to London Paddington in 1 h 25 m. The M4 is 12 miles north via the A46.

04 — Arrange a viewing

Marianne handles
this one

Viewings run Tuesday to Saturday. She has been inside the house more times than the owner has this year.

Marianne Halloway, founding partner

Marianne Halloway

Founding partner

“Come on a weekday morning if you can. The drawing room does something with the light before eleven that a photograph cannot hold.”

01225 448 204  ·  [email protected]

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