5, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. A Georgian House, offices.
5, High Street
- WRENN ID
- winding-belfry-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- House, offices
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 5, High Street, Wincanton
- OS grid reference
- ST 713 286
- Coordinates
- 51.0566, -2.41045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 High Street is an 18th-century house that has been converted into offices. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar stone dressings and features a plain clay tile hipped roof with an abutment to the east and brick chimney stacks. The building stands two storeys high with attics and has four bays.
Notable architectural features include a high plinth, a cill course, and rusticated quoins, along with an eaves course. The first bay has a segmental through archway with rusticated surrounds, above which is an angled oriel window with 4-12-4 pane sashes beneath a lead roof. The other bays feature 12-pane sash windows in architraved surrounds. Centrally located are a pair of three-panelled doors in a plain surround, topped with a timber hood supported by console brackets and a margined fanlight. Additionally, there are two 16-pane sash windows in pitched roof dormers located in bays two and four.
At the rear, there is a large oriel window consisting of 8 12 12-8 pane sashes with Gothick traceried glazing bars, topped with a lead bell-hip roof. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
5, High Street receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2026
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