2, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1975. House, warehouse. 3 related planning applications.
2, High Street
- WRENN ID
- solemn-ashlar-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1975
- Type
- House, warehouse
- Address
- 2, High Street, Bewdley, DY12 2DH
- OS grid reference
- SO 786 752
- Coordinates
- 52.37498, -2.31569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-18th century house and warehouse, later altered in the mid-19th century and the mid-20th century. The brick building has a tile roof and chimney stacks in the ridge. It now forms part of a larger house, shop and bakery.
The house and shop are to the left, while the warehouse is to the right. The house is three storeys high with three windows. It has 16-pane boxed sash windows under segmental heads; the central window on the first floor is blind. The second floor features 12-pane fixed casements with original crown glass. The ground floor has an entrance to the right of centre, with a mid-19th century shop to the left. The shop has pilasters, a blind box, a recessed glazed entrance door and a plate glass window to the left. Another ground floor window to the right is a 16-pane sash with a plastered wedge lintel set within a larger segmental headed opening. The house entrance is framed by a stone architrave with a keystone, topped by a flat wooden canopy. The door is six-panelled, with the upper two panels glazed.
The warehouse is two storeys high and features a dentilled brick cornice. It is attached to the previous building with a straight joint, with windows cutting through that joint. The first floor has a 16-pane boxed sash window with a segmental head, and a three-light casement below with a segmental head. The first floor also has five windows: two-light casements with leaded rectangular quarries under segmental heads. The ground floor has four windows: two-light casements under segmental heads. A cart entrance with a basket arch is on the left side, and a mid-19th century block with a flat headed cart entrance on the ground floor, and a loft door above with a segmental head, is on the right hand end.
The interior of the house is linked to number 1, with which it forms a single structure.
Local climate
2, High Street receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 7 transactions since 2006
- 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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