71, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
71, High Street
- WRENN ID
- keen-steeple-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 71, High Street, Wellington
- OS grid reference
- ST 140 208
- Coordinates
- 50.98051, -3.22505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 71 on High Street is a two-storey building with a three-window roughcast front, dating from around 1820 or 1830. It displays influences of the Greek Revival style, featuring wide eaves supported by brackets and a central gable with a pediment. The building has end pilasters and a prominent doorway adorned with fluted Tuscan columns and matching pilasters. Above the doorway is a rectangular fanlight with diagonal glazing bars. The side facing the churchyard also has a three-window arrangement with similar pilaster detailing. No. 71 is part of a group that includes the Church of St John the Baptist and the gatepiers and gates at the churchyard entrance.
Local climate
71, High Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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