5, New Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. Former house, bank, offices. 4 related planning applications.
5, New Street
- WRENN ID
- tenth-rafter-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1953
- Type
- Former house, bank, offices
- Address
- 5, New Street, Wells, BA5 2LA
- OS grid reference
- ST 549 459
- Coordinates
- 51.21087, -2.64686
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 New Street is a former house that has been converted into a bank and offices, dating from the 18th century. It features Doulting ashlar stonework and a Welsh slate roof with coped gables and brick chimney stacks.
The building is two storeys high and has four bays. It has a plinth, a band course, a cornice, and a plain parapet. The ground floor has been modified, featuring a six-panel door with a rectangular fanlight in an architrave at bay 1. Bays 2 and 4 have 20th-century casements in widened openings with stone architraves, while bay 3 has a six-panelled entrance door that is accessed by four steps. This door has a rectangular 'Y' traceried fanlight and is set in an eaved architrave with a pediment hood supported by console brackets. There are 18th-century wrought-iron railings leading up to the steps. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows in architraves. A 20th-century hanging sign is located to the right of bay 4. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
5, New 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- 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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