30 and 32, St Thomas Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House. 1 related planning application.
30 and 32, St Thomas Street
- WRENN ID
- plain-gable-crag
- 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
- 30 and 32, St Thomas Street, Wells, BA5 2UX
- OS grid reference
- ST 553 460
- Coordinates
- 51.21202, -2.6401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses on St Thomas Street, dating from the 18th century with an early 19th-century front range, originally built as three cottages. The front of the building is rendered with imitation ashlar joints, topped by a Mansard roof covered with double Roman clay tiles, and featuring brick chimney stacks. The front range was originally three cottages, each with one heated room and a winder stair opposite the chimney stack; two of the original outer cross passages remain. To the rear, on the right, is an older bakery range, with 20th-century extensions to the rear.
The exterior is two storeys and three bays, appearing almost symmetrical. It features a plinth and small-paned casement windows with segmental arches, except for the lower bay on the right, which has a former shop window with a bow of 32 panes, a shallow fascia, cornice, and a flat roof. Between bays one and two, and bays two and three, are 19th-century two-panel doors, also within segmental-arched openings. Number 30 was originally a bakery, and remains of an oven or bakehouse are reportedly present at the rear.
The interior was noted by the Vernacular Architecture Group to contain early 19th-century joinery, fireplaces, and a staircase inscribed with "W. Grist 1819." The property is largely unaltered and represents a notable example of an early 19th-century shop window.
Local climate
30 and 32, St Thomas 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 — 2 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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