Canton Cafe is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. A C19 House, shop.
Canton Cafe
- WRENN ID
- scarred-storey-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Canton Cafe, 48, High Street, Wincanton
- OS grid reference
- ST 715 286
- Coordinates
- 51.05671, -2.40713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Canton Cafe is a house and shop dating from the early 19th century, designed in the Regency style. It features a rendered front, a flat roof, and a brick chimney stack. The building stands three storeys high and has two bays. On the ground floor, there is a boarded door to the left, flanked by panelled pilasters that lead to console brackets and a moulded projecting continuous flat hood. This is followed by two semi-bow windows, each with 12 panes, where the outer panes are set in a quarter circle, and a pair of glazed doors with a plain fanlight above. The first floor has two similar bow windows with a central 12-pane sash and curved 4-pane ends, all under a continuous fascia with a flat hood. The second floor features two 9-pane sash windows in plain openings. The flat roof detracts from the building's otherwise interesting character, but it may have been added in the early 20th century, similar to No. 5 Market Place. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Canton Cafe receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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