First Gear is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1976. House.
First Gear
- WRENN ID
- deep-slate-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- First Gear, 2, South Street, Wellington
- OS grid reference
- ST 139 205
- Coordinates
- 50.97818, -3.22736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
First Gear is a two-storey building with an attic, dating from the 18th century. It is located on South Street, next to the Midland Bank at the corner with Fore Street. The building features a slab roof with three dormers and a stucco front. There are three sash windows with glazing bars, and to the right, there is a large doorway adorned with a pediment and panelled pilasters. To the left, there is a later shop front. First Gear, along with No. 4, forms a group with the Midland Bank on Fore Street.
Local climate
First Gear receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings