4, Cheap Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. A Tudor House.
4, Cheap Street
- WRENN ID
- dim-lime-coral
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- House
- Period
- Tudor
- Address
- 4, Cheap Street, Frome, BA11 1BN
- OS grid reference
- ST 776 480
- Coordinates
- 51.2309, -2.32107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 Cheap Street is a late 16th-century building with later alterations. It features a large jettied front gable with a projecting verge and stands at 2½ storeys tall. The first floor has two canted wooden bay windows, each with a 1-3-1 light configuration, ovolo mullions, transoms, and dentil cornices. The attic has a Yorkshire sash window. The ground floor has modern shop fronts with part reeded end piers, and there are traces of a first-floor jetty to the left. The roof is covered with pantiles.
At the rear, the building is also 2½ storeys with a double jettied design over a rubble basement. It has massive wooden corbels supporting the bressumers on the ground and first floors, and the exterior is rendered. There is a three-light attic window and a plain mid-19th-century window on the first floor. The ground floor features two ogee wood mullion windows, each with five lights, and two basement windows with similar mouldings, each having four lights. The central entrance has a half-glazed door with a stopped ogee moulded surround. Inside, there is a notable late 17th-century feature: a newel stair on the east side with incised risers and ball-capped newels.
Local climate
4, Cheap Street receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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