50, Garston Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1974. Cottage.
50, Garston Street
- WRENN ID
- hushed-baluster-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 50, Garston Street, Shepton Mallet
- OS grid reference
- ST 624 436
- Coordinates
- 51.19105, -2.53901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 50 Garston Street is a weaver's cottage that dates from around 1700. It is constructed of Doulting Limestone rubble with freestone detailing, and features a brick stack and a modern pantile roof with a coped verge. The building is three stories tall and has a single bay. The door opening has a chamfered square-headed architrave with a massive lintel, and there is a hollow chamfered drip moulding above it. The door itself is made of planks. To the right of the door, there is a poly-vinyl chloride top-hung casement window set in a plain stone surround. On the first floor, there is a three-light mullion window with a relieving arch above each light, and above this, there is another poly-vinyl chloride casement window.
Local climate
50, Garston Street receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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