The Mendips, on Menlove Avenue, Allerton, is to be put on the market and the National Trust has said it did not plan to preserve the home as it had done with the house where Paul McCartney grew up.
Bath, that home town in the SW of England, is claiming that exploratory fracking 15 miles away, in the Mendips, would threaten the supply of hot water to the famous springs and thus damage the economy of the City.