8, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. House.

8, High Street

WRENN ID
dim-gateway-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1983
Type
House
Address
8, High Street, Dunster, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 991 437
Coordinates
51.18367, -3.44368
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 8 High Street is a building located behind No 10 High Street, accessible through a passageway on the right. It is probably from the early 18th century and has undergone later alterations. The structure is made of rubble sandstone with render and features slate hanging on the first floor. It has a slate roof and stands two storeys tall. The building has two windows on the upper floor, which are modern 3 and 4-light casements with leaded lights. On the ground floor, there is a modern stable-type door set in a heavy square-headed frame, along with two casement windows.

Local climate

8, High Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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