Saltyre House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House. 2 related planning applications.
Saltyre House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-cornice-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Saltyre House, 4, Chamberlain Street, Wells, BA5 2SF
- OS grid reference
- ST 548 458
- Coordinates
- 51.21043, -2.64714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Saltyre House is a house in a row, dating from the 15th century and refronted in the late 18th century. It has a rendered and colourwashed exterior with a Welsh slate roof featuring a coped gable on the west side and an abutment on the east, along with concrete block chimney stacks. The building is L-shaped, with an 18th-century front block and parallel rear ranges, the right side dating from the 15th century and the left side from around 1800.
The exterior consists of two storeys with attics and seven bays. It features a plinth, cornice, and a plain parapet. The plain sash windows are set in moulded architraves. The entrance is located in the third bay, featuring a six-panel door within a semicircular arched recess, topped with a fanlight and framed by pilasters that support an open pediment hood. The seventh bay includes a wider semicircular arched throughway with a pair of 20th-century doors. There are three flat-roofed dormers situated behind the parapet.
At the back of the building, there are two extensions that run northwards. The western extension is from the late 18th or early 19th century and features Venetian windows, while the eastern wing appears to be from the 15th century.
Inside, the 15th-century wing is noted for its thick walls, with three upper cruck frames visible in the roof space, traces of a cambered collar, and some stop-chamfered curved windbraces. There is also a good late 18th-century dogleg staircase, although it has not been seen.
Local climate
Saltyre House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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