12, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. A Early to mid 19th century Row house, shop.
12, High Street
- WRENN ID
- waning-corbel-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Row house, shop
- Period
- Early to mid 19th century
- Address
- 12, High Street, Wells
- OS grid reference
- ST 549 457
- Coordinates
- 51.20919, -2.64648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 High Street is a row house with a shop, dating from the early to mid 19th century. It features painted ashlar stonework and a gabled pantiled roof that is hidden behind a parapet. The building has three storeys and a single bay. The shop front, which was added in the mid-20th century, includes deep 19th-century raking consoles. The windows on the first and second floors are tripartite sashes with three panes, nine panes, and three panes, and they have console brackets above the heads of the mullions. These windows are set within a recessed panel that has an arched head and is flanked by panelled pilasters. There is a prominent mid string, a moulded cornice, a blocking-course, and a concrete slab parapet. A brick chimney stack is located to the right side of the building. The rear has a low-pitched roof and features a 12-pane sash and a 16-pane sash in the rendered wall, along with a flat-roofed extension. The interior has been significantly altered in the 20th century, and original features are no longer visible.
Local climate
12, High 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
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