31, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Commercial. 2 related planning applications.

31, High Street

WRENN ID
night-rubble-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Type
Commercial
Address
31, High Street, Wells, BA5 2AA
OS grid reference
ST 549 456
Coordinates
51.20861, -2.64671
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

31 High Street is a house with a shop, built in the early 19th century. It features Doulting ashlar stonework and has a roof that is not visible behind a tall parapet, along with brick chimney stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys high with three bays.

The exterior includes panelled pilasters, a deep moulded cornice, and a plain parapet. The ground floor has a later 20th-century shop front, which features a pair of doors in a central angled recess and lacks a traditional fascia. Above this, there are plain openings with sash windows: 12-pane windows on the first floor and 9-pane windows on the second floor, with the central upper window being a dummy. A modern projecting sign is located between the second and third bays on the first floor.

Inside, the ground floor has been completely remodelled for the shop, but the first floor retains some original features. The front rooms have ceiling cornices and Regency window surrounds with shutters. The stairs leading from the first to the second floor are of early 19th-century design and arranged on a curved plan. Original partitions and doors are present on the second floor, along with a mid-19th-century fireplace in the east room and a 12-pane Yorkshire horizontal sash window at the rear.

Local climate

31, High Street 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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