Newlyn and the Little House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House.

Newlyn and the Little House

WRENN ID
western-buttress-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1953
Type
House
Address
Newlyn and the Little House, 8 and 8b, New Street, Wells, BA5 2LD
OS grid reference
ST 549 460
Coordinates
51.21192, -2.64621
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Newlyn and The Little House, located at 8 and 8B New Street, is a large house that has been subdivided. It was built around 1820 and refronted in the late 19th century. The exterior is rendered over rubble and features a Welsh slate roof with coped gables and rendered brick chimney stacks.

The building has two storeys with attics and consists of four bays. There are plinth pilaster strips at the ends and a cornice with a secret gutter. The plain sash windows in bays one and two are complemented by angled bay windows with plain sashes in bays three and four, which are set at a lower level to accommodate the slope of the hill. These bay windows have flat roofs over cornice mouldings. The central doorway in bay three features a 20th-century six-panel door, framed by pilasters, a cornice, and a hood. There is a second doorway between bays three and four, also a 20th-century six-panel door, which is set beneath a rectangular transom light with ornamental leading and has a matching hood above. Each doorway is accompanied by a 19th-century cast-iron footscraper to the right. The roof includes two hipped roof dormer windows.

The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Newlyn and the Little House 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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