16 and 16a, Union Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 November 1979. House.
16 and 16a, Union Street
- WRENN ID
- knotted-ledge-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 November 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16 and 16a, Union Street, Wells
- OS grid reference
- ST 548 457
- Coordinates
- 51.20908, -2.64788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
16 and 16A Union Street is a house that has been subdivided, dating from the early 19th century, with some alterations made in the mid to late 20th century. The building features random rubble walling and a clay pantiled roof that is supported between abutments, with no visible chimney stack.
The exterior has two storeys and three bays. It includes sash windows set in plain openings, with 16-pane windows on the ground floor and smaller 4-pane windows on the first floor. There is a central entrance that has a half-glazed door surrounded by timber and topped with an open pediment hood supported by brackets. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
16 and 16a, Union 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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