Bath Architect Digital Visibility Index — Q3-2026

Not every firm could be measured on every pillar (Q3-2026)

6 of the firms below are missing at least one pillar: Speed & CWV (75 of 80), Content & trust (78 of 80). Where a pillar could not be measured for a firm it is excluded from that firm’s score and its remaining weights are renormalised, rather than scored zero — so those firms are ranked on less evidence than the rest, and their position should be read with that in mind. Affected: BBA Architects Ltd, Mark Wray Architects, Etons Of Bath, Dimension 22 Ltd, RHaR - Rhodes Architects LLP, Arquitecto Limited. See the methodology.

The PYC Bath Architect Digital Visibility Index ranks 80 bath architects on how well they perform online — website speed, technical SEO, local presence, search visibility, AI search presence and content & trust — each scored 0–100 to a single Digital Visibility Score. Measured 31 August 2026 to the published methodology.

As of Q3-2026, 13% of the 75 bath architects measured on Speed & Core Web Vitals score below 50 on mobile (PYC Bath Architect Digital Visibility Index, measured 31 August 2026).

Who owns the first page

Across 12 keywords there are 120 first-page organic slots. The firms in this index hold 48 of them (40%); 102 distinct domains appear in total.

this index (48)   directories, national chains and firms not indexed (72)

Ranking well but not currently indexed:

• aurahomes.co.uk — 7 top-10 slots, best #1
• houzz.co.uk — 5 top-10 slots, best #2
• ckarchitectural.co.uk — 4 top-10 slots, best #1
• bath-preservation-trust.org.uk — 4 top-10 slots, best #3
• jamesarmitage.com — 4 top-10 slots, best #4

60.0% of the first page belongs to businesses outside this index — directories, national chains and local firms not tracked here. These firms are not mainly competing with each other.

The league table

#	Bath Architect	Score	Spd	Tech	Local	Vis	AI	Cont
1	Designscape Architects	80	99	100	90	53	60	53
2	WBC Group (Western Building Consultants)	79	69	100	99	43	80	70
3	Aaron Evans Architects Ltd	68	96	63	76	42	40	85
4	Lacey Architecture Ltd	65	59	100	92	33	40	37
5	BBA Architects Ltd	63	56	100	86	38	20	—
6	DKA	63	65	100	81	31	20	58
7	Mark Wray Architects	62	—	100	85	33	40	15
8	Mitchell Eley Gould Architects	61	55	88	83	42	40	30
9	TEA Architects	61	69	100	90	25	0	53
10	Bright Studio Architects	60	58	100	82	25	0	83
11	Maack Architects	60	46	100	83	38	20	55
12	Stride Treglown Bath	60	75	100	81	8	0	79
13	KANN ARCHITECTURE	59	64	88	81	51	0	50
14	Nash Partnership	59	76	88	69	4	20	87
15	Silvan Architects	59	57	88	87	33	0	75
16	Nick Shipp Architects	58	62	75	81	29	0	96
17	Etons Of Bath	57	—	100	89	0	0	79
18	Hetreed Ross Architects	57	31	100	84	46	20	41
19	Sicolo Webb Architects	57	61	100	84	0	20	45
20	SRA Architects	57	44	100	82	23	0	80
21	Studio Four Point Ten Architects	57	55	100	85	0	20	55
22	Bath Heritage Building ltd	56	58	71	90	21	40	28
23	Donald Insall Associates	55	79	75	67	0	20	75
24	Marptree Design & Build limited	55	58	100	90	8	0	45
25	Stonewood Design	55	100	100	59	21	0	0
26	The conservation architecture practice	55	72	100	67	0	0	70
27	Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios	54	78	75	88	0	40	0
28	Lynea Architects Ltd	54	33	100	94	38	0	28
29	Klas Hyllén Architecture	53	65	100	79	0	0	45
30	Collaborative Design and Build Ltd.	52	59	88	76	0	0	75
31	Dimension 22 Ltd	52	—	75	100	12	0	50
32	Flawless	52	71	100	59	4	0	53
33	Woolf Interior Architecture & Design	52	49	100	91	0	0	35
34	Alex Tart Architects, Bath	51	62	75	63	33	0	58
35	Lord Architecture Ltd	51	63	63	79	21	20	37
36	Paragon Structures	51	64	100	67	0	0	49
37	Sims Hilditch	51	53	100	87	0	0	30
38	Smartarch Ltd	51	59	88	67	4	0	80
39	Sova Surveys Bath	51	61	88	71	0	0	70
40	Axon Architects	50	85	88	59	0	0	33
41	Jonathan Logsdon Architect	50	70	75	76	8	0	45
42	The Curator's House Interior Design	50	56	100	79	0	0	33
43	MORIarchitects	49	63	88	81	0	0	30
44	ReFrame Studio	49	44	88	79	4	0	60
45	VASS Architects	49	88	75	67	17	0	5
46	Alistair Ellen Architect	48	62	88	70	0	0	37
47	CaSA Architects	48	68	50	84	28	0	30
48	Chapter Interiors	48	89	75	67	0	0	17
49	John Mullen Building Surveying	48	98	50	79	4	0	24
50	Curtis Cryer Architects	47	66	63	94	0	0	25
51	LucyEdwards3D	47	46	100	67	0	0	45
52	AHC Consultants	46	82	75	59	0	0	25
53	Burnford Architecture	46	46	100	80	4	0	0
54	Carter Hughes Davies	46	51	75	78	13	0	37
55	Fairfield Banks	46	61	88	63	0	0	35
56	Moon DESIGN	46	59	88	63	8	0	28
57	The Rez Group	46	59	100	67	0	0	10
58	Hambury Hird Design Ltd	45	68	75	59	0	0	50
59	INK Architecture	45	59	88	63	0	0	33
60	mimetico	45	50	100	63	0	0	24
61	Ailtire Architects	44	62	88	59	0	0	20
62	Atelier 17 Ltd	44	70	63	79	0	0	20
63	James Gallie	44	85	50	59	0	0	50
64	Anthony Paine Limited	43	65	75	59	0	0	30
65	Kashdan Brown Architects	43	70	75	59	0	0	20
66	MOORE YACHT DESIGN	42	65	75	59	0	0	20
67	Chedburn Dudley	41	99	29	73	0	0	3
68	GBH Historic Building Advice	41	67	50	81	0	0	10
69	LaBox Design	41	58	63	80	0	0	10
70	Watson Bertram & Fell	41	39	63	79	0	0	45
71	Architectural Services Bath - Architects Loft Conversions Bath - Philip Clifford Design	40	31	57	59	25	20	42
72	Batterham Smith Architects	40	63	38	76	0	20	17
73	JABA Architect Limited	40	65	63	63	0	0	15
74	Llewellyn Harker Lowe Architects	39	56	29	81	0	20	25
75	Neil Pollard Architect Ltd	37	62	43	73	0	0	15
76	RHaR - Rhodes Architects LLP	37	—	75	63	0	0	20
77	YOU&ME Architecture	37	64	43	59	0	0	40
78	iPerimeter Ltd	35	100	14	59	0	0	0
79	Spencer W Tart	35	100	14	59	0	0	8
80	Arquitecto Limited	17	—	0	59	0	0	—

Which keywords are contested, and which are open?

Every firm against every keyword, shaded by position. Darker is stronger; blank means outside the top 100. Read down a column for a contested term, across a row for a firm's reach.

	architects	architect	architectural services	house extension architect	planning application archit…	listed building architect	residential architects	commercial architects	self build architect	loft conversion architect	barn conversion architect	conservation architect
Designscape Architects	15	35	35	17	34	5	8	2	23		50
WBC Group (Western Building Consultants)	27		1	18	2	11	18	9		3	2	13
Aaron Evans Architects Ltd	9	17	19	25	31	33	38	18	30			42
Lacey Architecture Ltd	26			4	21		4	34	32	63	70
BBA Architects Ltd	8	20	9		44	4	21	12			32	5
DKA	6		4				11	4
Mark Wray Architects	10	14	33			19	13	5	35			52
Mitchell Eley Gould Architects	1		28		41	43	3	20	49	46	3	21
TEA Architects	39		46	5			27	23	3
Bright Studio Architects	22		32	34			22	25	36
Maack Architects	12		26	20	7		9	1	9	37	31
Stride Treglown Bath	5							36
KANN ARCHITECTURE	62		30	1	1	49	30	55	24	38	71	69
Nash Partnership								70
Silvan Architects	14		43				12	21
Nick Shipp Architects	16	13	16				17	10	21		12
Etons Of Bath
Hetreed Ross Architects	20	29	55	9		7	16	7	37	67	23	18
Sicolo Webb Architects
SRA Architects	3		2			78	15	6
Studio Four Point Ten Architects
Bath Heritage Building ltd				35		70			63	4		65
Donald Insall Associates
Marptree Design & Build limited								85	66
Stonewood Design	54					84	63	84				74
The conservation architecture practice
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Lynea Architects Ltd	17		10	15	40		14	24	29
Klas Hyllén Architecture
Collaborative Design and Build Ltd.
Dimension 22 Ltd			53		54
Flawless									47
Woolf Interior Architecture & Design
Alex Tart Architects, Bath	19	22	17		6	15	5	31	15
Lord Architecture Ltd	35	25	51				61	61
Paragon Structures
Sims Hilditch
Smartarch Ltd								54
Sova Surveys Bath
Axon Architects
Jonathan Logsdon Architect	36						42
The Curator's House Interior Design
MORIarchitects
ReFrame Studio				23
VASS Architects	67		76	49			55
Alistair Ellen Architect
CaSA Architects						3
Chapter Interiors
John Mullen Building Surveying						59
Curtis Cryer Architects
LucyEdwards3D
AHC Consultants
Burnford Architecture							62
Carter Hughes Davies	46		6					27
Fairfield Banks
Moon DESIGN	51						73
The Rez Group
Hambury Hird Design Ltd
INK Architecture
mimetico
Ailtire Architects
Atelier 17 Ltd
James Gallie
Anthony Paine Limited
Kashdan Brown Architects
MOORE YACHT DESIGN
Chedburn Dudley
GBH Historic Building Advice
LaBox Design
Watson Bertram & Fell
Architectural Services Bath - Architects Loft Conversions Bath - Philip Clifford Design	60		71	2	52					1	45
Batterham Smith Architects
JABA Architect Limited
Llewellyn Harker Lowe Architects
Neil Pollard Architect Ltd
RHaR - Rhodes Architects LLP
YOU&ME Architecture
iPerimeter Ltd
Spencer W Tart
Arquitecto Limited

1–3 4–10 11–20 21+ absent

No firm in this index reaches the first page for “architect Bath”. That is uncontested ground, and it is invisible in a league table.

Where each firm is visible

Where each firm is visible: ranked in the organic top 10 for at least one keyword, present in the local 3-pack, or named in at least one AI answer. 1 of 80 appear in all three.

Visible in	Firms	Which
All three channels	1	Designscape Architects
Organic + local pack	3	KANN ARCHITECTURE, SRA Architects, Lynea Architects Ltd
Organic + AI	11	WBC Group (Western Building Consultants), Aaron Evans Architects Ltd, Lacey Architecture Ltd, BBA Architects Ltd, DKA, Mark Wray Architects, Mitchell Eley Gould Architects, Maack Architects, Hetreed Ross Architects, Bath Heritage Building ltd, Architectural Services Bath - Architects Loft Conversions Bath - Philip Clifford Design
Local pack + AI	0	—
Organic only	6	TEA Architects, Stride Treglown Bath, Nick Shipp Architects, Alex Tart Architects, Bath, CaSA Architects, Carter Hughes Davies
Local pack only	2	Silvan Architects, Dimension 22 Ltd
AI only	8	Nash Partnership, Sicolo Webb Architects, Studio Four Point Ten Architects, Donald Insall Associates, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Lord Architecture Ltd, Batterham Smith Architects, Llewellyn Harker Lowe Architects
None of the three	49	Bright Studio Architects, Etons Of Bath, Marptree Design & Build limited, Stonewood Design, The conservation architecture practice, Klas Hyllén Architecture, Collaborative Design and Build Ltd., Flawless, Woolf Interior Architecture & Design, Paragon Structures, Sims Hilditch, Smartarch Ltd, Sova Surveys Bath, Axon Architects, Jonathan Logsdon Architect, The Curator's House Interior Design, MORIarchitects, ReFrame Studio, VASS Architects, Alistair Ellen Architect, Chapter Interiors, John Mullen Building Surveying, Curtis Cryer Architects, LucyEdwards3D, AHC Consultants, Burnford Architecture, Fairfield Banks, Moon DESIGN, The Rez Group, Hambury Hird Design Ltd, INK Architecture, mimetico, Ailtire Architects, Atelier 17 Ltd, James Gallie, Anthony Paine Limited, Kashdan Brown Architects, MOORE YACHT DESIGN, Chedburn Dudley, GBH Historic Building Advice, LaBox Design, Watson Bertram & Fell, JABA Architect Limited, Neil Pollard Architect Ltd, RHaR - Rhodes Architects LLP, YOU&ME Architecture, iPerimeter Ltd, Spencer W Tart, Arquitecto Limited

1 of 80 firms are visible in all three channels. 49 appear in none of them.

Search visibility against AI presence

Search visibility against AI search presence. The dashed diagonal is parity; a firm far from it is strong in one channel and weak in the other.

horizontal: search visibility →   vertical: AI presence ↑

KANN ARCHITECTURE is the widest split: search surfaces it far more readily than AI engines name it (visibility 51, AI 0) — search without brand. Those are different problems behind a similar overall score.

Closest to the first page

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.

WBC Group (Western Building Consultants)	WBC Group (Western Building Consultants) — listed building architect Bath		#11
DKA	DKA — residential architects Bath		#11
BBA Architects Ltd	BBA Architects Ltd — commercial architects Bath		#12
Maack Architects	Maack Architects — architects Bath		#12
Silvan Architects	Silvan Architects — residential architects Bath		#12
Nick Shipp Architects	Nick Shipp Architects — barn conversion architect Bath		#12
WBC Group (Western Building Consultants)	WBC Group (Western Building Consultants) — conservation architect Bath		#13
Mark Wray Architects	Mark Wray Architects — residential architects Bath		#13
Nick Shipp Architects	Nick Shipp Architects — architect Bath		#13
Mark Wray Architects	Mark Wray Architects — architect Bath		#14

36 winnable positions across 14 firms sit between #11 and #20 — one page off, and closer than any keyword the index does not already measure.

Reputation: reviews against rating

Google review volume (log scale) against average rating. Bubble size is review count. The rating axis starts at 4.3 so the cluster is readable; 4 firms rated below that sit on the floor, drawn hollow and named.

horizontal: reviews (log) →   vertical: rating ↑

Review volume spans 1 to 148 and ratings 3 to 5, yet the Local pillar separates these firms by only 31 points — the raw figures discriminate where the score does not. Most reviews: WBC Group (Western Building Consultants) (148). Highest rating: 37 firms tied at 5.

What the keyword basket is asking

Search intent across the measured keyword basket, classified by DataForSEO. Every keyword in the basket carries the same intent, so this pillar measures one slice of the funnel rather than the whole journey.

commercial		12 of 12

Local pack coverage across the city

Local 3-pack for “architects near me” searched from 9 points on a 3×3 grid across a 7.5-mile square centred on 51.381, -2.359. North is up; each cell names its position and carries its coordinates and the firms found there. Each cell counts how many indexed firms hold a pack slot at that location; a chain counts wherever any of its branches appears. 8 of 9 points contain at least one indexed firm, and 7 of the 80 indexed firms appear somewhere on the grid.

N ↑

Indexed firms holding a local pack slot, by grid position from north-west to south-east

NWnorth-west, 51.435, -2.445 — no indexed firm in the pack here	3Nnorth, 51.435, -2.359 — Lynea Architects Ltd, Designscape Architects, CaSA Architects	2NEnorth-east, 51.435, -2.273 — CaSA Architects, Llewellyn Harker Lowe Architects
3Wwest, 51.381, -2.445 — Silvan Architects, Lynea Architects Ltd, Designscape Architects	2·centre, 51.381, -2.359 — Designscape Architects, Lynea Architects Ltd	3Eeast, 51.381, -2.273 — Curtis Cryer Architects, Lacey Architecture Ltd, CaSA Architects
3SWsouth-west, 51.327, -2.445 — Lacey Architecture Ltd, Lynea Architects Ltd, Designscape Architects	3Ssouth, 51.327, -2.359 — Lacey Architecture Ltd, Lynea Architects Ltd, Designscape Architects	2SEsouth-east, 51.327, -2.273 — Curtis Cryer Architects, Lacey Architecture Ltd

3.7 miles between points

none 1 firm 2 3 of the pack

What the register says this cohort is

Companies House matched 26 of 80 businesses on an exact name with a corroborating registered address. Firms are seeded by trading name, which is how a business presents itself rather than what it is registered to do — so the mix below is often broader than the index title suggests. A company may register several SIC codes, so these counts sum to more than the number of firms. 1 matched firm lists no SIC code and is absent from the table. Median company age is 14.1 years, ranging from 2.1 to 39.7. Recorded alongside the measurement and carrying no weight in any score.

SIC	Registered activity	Firms
71111	Architectural activities	18
71129	Other engineering activities	2
41201	Construction of commercial buildings	2
41202	Construction of domestic buildings	1
42990	Construction of other civil engineering projects	1
74209	Not labelled here	1
82990	Not labelled here	1

Which bath architect has the best website?

Designscape Architects tops the Q3-2026 index with a Digital Visibility Score of 80/100. Each firm has a full diagnostic scorecard linked from the table above.

How this is measured

Every score follows the same six-pillar methodology: Speed & Core Web Vitals (20%), Technical foundation (20%), Local presence (20%), Visibility (15%), AI search presence (15%) and Content & trust (10%). Each pillar links to the knowledge-base article that explains what it measures; the statistical methods behind the scoring are written up separately. Download the full dataset: JSON · CSV.

Who publishes this

The index is compiled and published by PYC, a search consultancy run by Phil Yarrow. It exists because the questions it answers — who is actually visible in a local market, and by how much — were being answered with opinion. The collection and scoring code is open source, so any figure here can be recomputed rather than taken on trust.

Related reading on the practice behind the measurements: topical authority, generative engine optimisation, and case studies from comparable service businesses.

Using this data

This dataset is published under CC BY 4.0. You may reuse it, including commercially and in AI-generated answers, provided you credit Phil Yarrow (PYC) by name and link back. That credit is a condition of use, not a courtesy.

Phil Yarrow (PYC) — Local Digital Visibility Index. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/

That one credit covers every dataset on this site — one figure or all of them. When quoting this particular dataset precisely, the fuller form is:

Phil Yarrow (PYC) — Local Digital Visibility Index: Bath Architect, Q3-2026. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/bath-architects/

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