25, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. Shop, house, warehouse.
25, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- weathered-forge-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1953
- Type
- Shop, house, warehouse
- Address
- 25, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information), 53, South Street, Wells
- OS grid reference
- ST 549 456
- Coordinates
- 51.20869, -2.64634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 25 High Street is a shop with a house above, which was formerly a public house, and has a warehouse at the rear. It dates from around 1840 and is constructed of Doulting stone ashlar, topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof behind a tall parapet.
The building is three storeys high and consists of a single bay. The ground floor features a 20th-century shop front with a door set in a deep recess to the right, flanked by incised pilaster strips and a partly concealed cornice above a very slim fascia. On the first floor, there is a 16-pane sash window with a simple architrave and a moulded flat hood supported by console brackets. The second floor has a smaller 16-pane sash window set in plain ashlar, with end pilaster strips that have incised line decoration, along with a cornice and a plain parapet.
Inside, the ground floor has been modified for use as a shop. There is a 19th-century top-lit staircase leading to the house above, featuring turned newels, stick balusters, and a deal handrail, although the section from the ground to the first floor has been removed.
At the rear, No. 53 South Street is a two-storey warehouse from the 19th century, featuring a King-post roof covered with slate, and built on stone rubble with partially rendered walls. Beneath the shop, house, and warehouse are early 19th-century bonded cellars with brick vaults and remaining stone bins.
Local climate
25, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information) 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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