15, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House.
15, High Street
- WRENN ID
- third-pier-thunder
- 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
- 15, High Street, Wells
- OS grid reference
- ST 549 457
- Coordinates
- 51.20897, -2.64634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 15 High Street is a house with a shop, now functioning as a shop with flats, dating from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick with Doulting stone dressings and features a Welsh slate-covered Mansard roof set between coped gables, along with a rendered chimney stack.
The exterior consists of four storeys and three bays. It has brick band courses, a stone cornice, and a plain brick parapet with stone coping. The ground floor showcases a late 19th-century shop front, which includes panelled pilasters and ornamental brackets supporting a shallow fascia cornice. To the left, there is a door with two semicircular arched panels and a rectangular fanlight above. In the centre, a glazed door is set in an angled recess, flanked by plain display windows with cast-iron columns at the corners. The upper floors feature plain sash windows: 12-pane on the first floor, 9-pane on the third floor, all set in plain openings with stone sills and gauged brick flat arches, and with moulded exposed sash boxes.
The interior of the ground floor has been modified for the shop, while the upper floors have been converted into five flats, which are not visible but are reported to have undergone considerable modification.
Local climate
15, 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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