Warehouse and street wall to rear of Highfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1978. A C19 Warehouse.
Warehouse and street wall to rear of Highfield House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-cupola-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1978
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Warehouse and street wall to rear of Highfield House, Park Road, Shepton Mallet
- OS grid reference
- ST 618 432
- Coordinates
- 51.18742, -2.54667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a mid-19th century milling complex that has been converted into a warehouse, originally constructed for the Allens of Highfield House. It is made of Doulting rubble and features hipped slate roofs.
The south-east mill block is three storeys high and has seven bays with segmental-headed openings, some of which are barred. The first floor retains remains of sash windows, and there are small rectangular openings under the eaves. An angled bay is located on the first floor to the left of the center. The central part of the facade includes a broad semi-circular arched doorway with a stone architrave and plank doors. There is also a doorway on the second floor, with a gabled hoist that springs out of the roof above. Lean-tos extend at right angles to both the left and right of the facade, with the left one being a single storey that backs onto a high boundary wall with Park Road. This wall ends in a rusticated ashlar pier.
To the west, there is a rectangular block that is obscured by lean-tos with catslide roofs. This section has one brick stack and one ashlar stack with moulded capping. The north gable end features two windows.
Local climate
Warehouse and street wall to rear of Highfield House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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