2 and 4, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. Shop and house. 2 related planning applications.
2 and 4, High Street
- WRENN ID
- muted-pilaster-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Shop and house
- Address
- 2 and 4, High Street, Axbridge, BS26 2AF
- OS grid reference
- ST 430 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28723, -2.81784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a timber-framed shop and house, likely dating to the 16th century, with alterations in the 17th and late 18th centuries. The front is timber-framed and rendered, displaying exposed close studding with a middle rail, and continuous jetties to the first and second floors. The ground floor jetty is underbuilt in brick. A pantile roof with a wide overhang is visible on the left gable, and arch braces are present on the left return.
The building is three storeys high and has three bays. The second floor has 3-light casements, while the first floor features 2-light transomed casements with leaded lights. There is a 36-light shop front on the ground floor, along with two door openings to the right. One entrance has a half-glazed door with a transolight, and the other features a 18th-century six-panelled door recessed within a moulded and stopped wooden surround.
A two-storey, single-bay rubble wing is attached to the right, with flush-moulded sash windows that have lost some of their glazing bars. The building was undergoing restoration at the time of a resurvey in December 1983.
Local climate
2 and 4, High Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- 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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