23, Chamberlain Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House. 2 related planning applications.

23, Chamberlain Street

WRENN ID
bitter-solder-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1953
Type
House
Address
23, Chamberlain Street, Wells, BA5 2PQ
OS grid reference
ST 547 457
Coordinates
51.20958, -2.649
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a late 18th or early 19th century house, originally built as part of a row, and now converted into flats. It may incorporate earlier fabric to the rear. The front of the building is rendered and colourwashed, with stone dressings, while the wings are constructed of rubble. The roof is covered with triple roll clay tiles, featuring a coped gable on the west side, and there's a brick chimney stack. The main front section is a double-depth design and is accompanied by two gabled rear wings.

The exterior presents two storeys and four bays. Features include a plinth, plain pilasters at the ends, a cornice, and a plain parapet. The fourth bay has a canted bay window with plain sashes under a lead bell-hip roof; other windows are plain, late 20th century plastic sashes in simple openings. The main entrance, in the third bay, has a six-panel door with a rectangular fanlight, set within a doorcase comprising Doric pilasters, a shallow entablature, and a moulded flat hood. Approximately one meter of plain walling rises above the first-floor windows. The rear wings have steep pitched roofs and late 20th century replacement windows.

The interior has not been inspected. The property, constructed or refaced around the same time as the adjoining No. 21, has unfortunately lost all of its original glazing-bar sashes.

Local climate

23, Chamberlain 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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  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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