23, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House.
23, High Street
- WRENN ID
- hollow-brick-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 23, High Street, Wells
- OS grid reference
- ST 549 457
- Coordinates
- 51.20878, -2.64647
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 23 High Street is a house with a shop, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings, all of which are colourwashed, and the roof is not visible behind the parapet. The building has a right-angle plan and stands three storeys high with a single bay.
The exterior features a plain mid-20th century shop front on the ground floor, which includes a fairly deep fascia and a doorway on the left. On the first floor, there is a tripartite sash window with 4+12+4 square panes, apparently under a timber lintel. The second floor has a 12-pane sash window in a plain opening, complete with a stone sill and a gauged brick flat arch, set beneath a moulded stone cornice and a plain parapet.
Inside, the layout consists of a long narrow two-room space with a central timber winder staircase, although only some stick balusters remain, and there are no original details visible. The roof covering is reputed to have been replaced in 1992.
Local climate
23, 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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