30, 32 and 34, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Shop. 1 related planning application.
30, 32 and 34, High Street
- WRENN ID
- dim-sentry-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 30, 32 and 34, High Street, Wells, BA5 2SG
- OS grid reference
- ST 548 457
- Coordinates
- 51.20892, -2.64747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
30, 32, and 34 High Street is a building that consists of one shop, which was formerly two separate buildings. The facades date from the 19th century, concealing work from the 18th century and possibly the 15th century. The structure is made of brick with some stone dressings, all covered in colourwash, and features hipped double-Roman clay tiled roofs for each half, with ridges running at right angles to the street.
The exterior has three storeys, with a single bay on the west section that is set back slightly, and a two-bay east part. There is a later 20th-century shop front that spans the entire width of both sections, featuring a recessed doorway towards the left side, beneath a deep fascia. On the upper floors, the west bay includes an angled bay window with a flat roof beneath a plain parapet. The two east bays have sash windows in plain openings, topped with gauged brick flat arches, and are under a wide projection cornice and a taller plain parapet. All windows have single vertical glazing bars within otherwise plain units. There is a 19th and 20th-century extension at the rear.
Inside, the ground floor has been completely remodeled in the 20th century. The west section features Regency pattern doors leading to the first floor, along with a staircase from a similar period to the second floor, where the doors are of an 18th-century style. Although the roof space is not accessible, the feet of the trusses appear to incorporate windbracing. The east section has been significantly modified and has a 19th-century collar truss roof.
Local climate
30, 32 and 34, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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