44, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House, shop. 4 related planning applications.
44, High Street
- WRENN ID
- dusk-wall-juniper
- 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, shop
- Address
- 44, High Street, Wells, BA5 2SN
- OS grid reference
- ST 548 456
- Coordinates
- 51.20851, -2.64768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th or early 19th century house with a shop, now used as offices with a shop. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings, and the exterior is colourwashed. The roof is double-pitched, covered in clay pantiles, with coped gables and brick chimney stacks.
The building is three storeys high with three bays. The ground floor has been significantly altered with 20th-century shop fronts, including a recessed entrance to the middle for the shop and a doorway to the left leading to offices. The first floor has paired 12-pane sash windows in the outer bays, a central 12-pane window with a semicircular head, and matching pairs and a single 9-pane sash window to the second floor. The central single-light window and the remaining windows have flat, gauged brick arches; the central window is glazed, while the others appear blind. A plain parapet sits above, with a small moulded cornice and simple coping.
The ground floor interior has been much remodelled. However, the first floor retains portions of an exposed stud partition framework, some early 19th century doors and door cases, panelled window reveals, and an early 19th century staircase connecting the first and second floors. A half-round arched cupboard is located within the east party wall on the first floor.
Local climate
44, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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