No 21 and Attached Rear Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1974. Shop.
No 21 and Attached Rear Area Railings
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-column-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1974
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- No 21 and Attached Rear Area Railings, High Street, Bridgwater
- OS grid reference
- ST 297 370
- Coordinates
- 51.12811, -3.00503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 21 is a shop with a dwelling above, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of painted brick with stone stepped voussoirs and cills, topped by a pantile roof that features a brick stack at the right gable end. The building has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys tall with a one-window range. The second floor has a 3/6-pane sash window with a cill band, while the first floor has a 6/6-pane sash window. The façade is enhanced by pilasters with panelled bases on plinths, which support simple panelled corbels flanking the moulded fascia of the 20th-century shop front. The rear of the building also has a one-window range with flat gauged brick arches and 6/6-pane sash windows. To the left of the door, there is a gauged brick elliptical arch leading to a shallow recess, above which is a 6/6-pane sash window over a narrow basement area. The interior has not been inspected. Additionally, there are spearhead railings that front the basement area recess at the rear.
Local climate
No 21 and Attached Rear Area Railings receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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