2, Queen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 2000. Shop premises.
2, Queen Street
- WRENN ID
- gilded-keep-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 2000
- Type
- Shop premises
- Address
- 2, Queen Street, Wells
- OS grid reference
- ST 547 456
- Coordinates
- 51.20791, -2.64911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Queen Street is a shop premises, which has temporarily served as a bank, with a flat above. It dates from the late 18th century and has been modified. The building is rendered and colourwashed, featuring a clay pantiled roof that continues to the south and abuts to the north, along with a brick chimney stack.
The exterior consists of two storeys with an attic and is arranged in two bays. It has an earlier 20th-century shop front that includes two 2-light display windows and part-glazed doors at each end. The first floor has 2-light casements, and there are two 2-light flat-roofed dormers in the roof.
The interior has not been inspected. These premises are now integral with No. 71 High Street.
Local climate
2, Queen 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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