8, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1974. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
8, High Street
- WRENN ID
- lunar-obsidian-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1974
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 8, High Street, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5AN
- OS grid reference
- ST 618 436
- Coordinates
- 51.19045, -2.54714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 8 High Street is a shop dating from around 1800. It has a rendered exterior, a slate roof, and a brick chimney stack. The building features a classical facade and stands three stories tall with two bays. The first floor has sash windows with glazing bars set in reveals, while the upper floors have 20th-century casement windows with two lights. The 19th-century shopfront includes three-quarters glazed and recessed double doors topped with a fanlight. Each side of the entrance and shop window has segmental arch heads supported by cast iron columns with a barley-sugar design and floral decoration at the base and capital. Note that the window and column on the right side have been removed.
Local climate
8, High Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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