80, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 2000. A C18/Early C19 House with shop.

80, High Street

WRENN ID
iron-timber-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 2000
Type
House with shop
Address
80, High Street, Wells
OS grid reference
ST 547 456
Coordinates
51.20821, -2.64937
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 80 High Street is a house with a shop, dating from the 18th century to early 19th century. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings, all covered in colourwash, and features a hipped Welsh slate roof with brick chimney stacks.

The building has two storeys with an attic and consists of two bays. The ground floor includes a late 19th-century shop window, which has a central recessed doorway with a fanlight, thin mullions, and rounded top corners. There is a deep fascia with a moulded cornice. The shop front extends to the left with two panes in the same style and continues with the same detail to the adjoining No. 78 on the right. On the first floor, there are two 12-pane sash windows with plain surrounds, gauged brick flat arched heads, and slim keystones, along with a 12-pane sash window on the return over the shop window. There are no windows in the attic. The building features bold alternating rusticated quoins at each end, a rough coved cornice, and a blocking course.

Inside, the ground floor has been modified, but a late 18th-century staircase with a hardwood handrail, turned newels, and stick balusters remains intact from the ground floor to the attic. Some partitions and doorcases are preserved at both levels. There is a later extension at the rear. The building has experienced slight settlement, causing the shop front to lean in one direction and the upper part of the building to lean in the opposite direction.

Local climate

80, High Street receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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