59, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House, shop.
59, High Street
- WRENN ID
- gilded-gable-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 59, High Street, Wincanton
- OS grid reference
- ST 715 287
- Coordinates
- 51.05693, -2.40722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 59 High Street is a house and shop dating from around 1840. It features a rendered and colourwashed facade, with a Welsh slate roof supported by abutments and brick end chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. The later 19th-century shopfront includes two-pane display windows with a toplight, flanked by reeded wood pilasters, and has separate fascias and flat hoods. The shopfront is connected by a pair of glazed doors in a plain opening. Above, there is a central panel with a painted board flanked by two 2-light small pane casements. On the second floor, there are 12-pane sash windows, all set in plain openings. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
59, High Street receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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