4, New Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. A Medieval House. 1 related planning application.

4, New Street

WRENN ID
tilted-latch-holly
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1968
Type
House
Period
Medieval
Address
4, New Street, Mells, BA11 3PW
OS grid reference
ST 727 492
Coordinates
51.24175, -2.39132
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 4 on New Street is a house that is part of a row, built around 1470 for Abbot Selwood, with later alterations. It is constructed from coursed and squared Doulting rubble, featuring an eaves course and a stone tile roof. The right side has a coped verge with a saddlestone, and there is a central rubble stack along with a tall stack rising from the front eaves. The house has a cross passage plan and is two storeys high with three bays.

On the first floor, there is a two-light moulded stone mullioned window, with each light having a trefoil head, located to the right. To the left on the ground floor, there is a later four-light chamfered mullioned window. The remaining openings are 18th-century sash windows with glazing bars inserted into the surrounds of former mullioned windows. There are two door openings, one to the right featuring a chamfered stone surround and plank doors.

The right return has further two and three-light moulded stone mullioned windows with leaded lights. At the rear, there are three additional trefoil-headed mullioned windows, a canted stair turret with a pent roof, and a four-centred chamfered stone door opening with a carving of an angel above.

Local climate

4, New Street receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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