132-138, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. Shop premises. 2 related planning applications.
132-138, High Street
- WRENN ID
- steep-turret-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Weston-super-Mare MP: Dan Aldridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Shop premises
- Address
- 132-138, High Street, Weston Super Mare, Weston-Super-Mare, BS23 1HP
- OS grid reference
- ST 319 617
- Coordinates
- 51.35087, -2.97911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A shop premises with offices above, dating from 1889 and likely designed by Hans Price. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar, with a slate roof and ashlar stacks. It is built in a Jacobethan Italianate/Flemish style.
The building has three storeys and an attic, and features a symmetrical west front of 3:3:3:3:3 bays. Pilasters enrich the facade, separating the bays and creating cornices and broad friezes with arabesques and festoons between the storeys. The first floor has tripartite round arch windows with console keyblocks and cast-iron balconettes; the second floor features Venetian windows. Above the eaves cornice, a stone balustrade is positioned between a pair of pedimented gables, each with pilasters and shell tympana over the windows. The ground floor has end pilasters and a coved fascia above four shop fronts, although those of numbers 132 and 134 have been replaced. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
132-138, High Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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