Number 43 with Front Boundary Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.

Number 43 with Front Boundary Walls and Railings

WRENN ID
slow-cloister-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Number 43 with Front Boundary Walls and Railings, St Thomas Street, Wells, BA5 2UY
OS grid reference
ST 554 461
Coordinates
51.21258, -2.63935
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 43 is a house in a row, dating from the early 18th century, with alterations made in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It incorporates substantial amounts of reset medieval fabric. The house is constructed of local stone rubble with a clay pantile roof. The west side has a stone abutment and the east side a coped gable, with brick chimney stacks, the eastern one being truncated and capped. The building has an L-shaped plan, including a rear wing on the right side.

The exterior is two storeys with an attic, and has two bays. It features sash windows with 24 small panes in all bays except the lower bay of the left-hand side, which has a mid-20th century angled bay window with a flat roof. This bay window has 1+3+1 lights and small-pane casements with transoms. The centrally placed doorway has a six-panel door leading up four steps within a plain surround. The steps have 19th-century cast-iron railings consisting of loops over pointed bars with capped intermediate rails. Later 20th-century copies of railings, set on a low concrete kerbing, delineate the front boundary wall approximately one meter from the house. Three rooflights are set high in the roof.

The interior contains reset features, including a four-centred arched head to a fireplace and a niche, which may have originally been part of a laver. There is a three-bay roof with tenoned in-line purlins, although the collars have been removed. A rear wing with a cranked collar is also present.

Local climate

Number 43 with Front Boundary Walls and Railings 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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