53, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1972. House.
53, High Street
- WRENN ID
- outer-thatch-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- 53, High Street, Wells-Next-The-Sea, NR23 1EN
- OS grid reference
- TF 917 432
- Coordinates
- 52.95274, 0.85305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 High Street is an early 19th-century, two-storey brick building that has been painted. It features three flush frame sash windows on the first floor, which now only have central glazing bars. The roof has a moderate pitch and is covered with pantiles. The shop front, dating from the mid-19th century, includes a central entrance and a display case with scroll consoles on either side. The building is noted to have once served as a herdsman's cottage adjacent to marshland. It is part of a group that includes Nos. 43 to 47 (odd), Peardene, Nos. 51 and 53, and Nos. 57 to 63 (odd).
Local climate
53, High Street receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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