40, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. A C17 House. 4 related planning applications.
40, West Street
- WRENN ID
- scattered-wicket-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 40, West Street, Axbridge, BS26 2AD
- OS grid reference
- ST 427 546
- Coordinates
- 51.28777, -2.82242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40, West Street is a house dating from the 17th century, with a new facade added in the early 17th century. The house is roughcast and has a double Roman tile roof, with two brick ridge stacks at each end. It is two storeys high and three bays wide, featuring 2-light casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, except for a broader 24-pane sash window to the left of the ground floor. A 6-panelled door is located virtually in the centre of the building. To the right is a contiguous outshut with a roof of slightly lower height, and contains a pair of broad plank doors at ground floor level.
Local climate
40, West 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 — 6 transactions since 2000
- 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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