16, St John Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House.
16, St John Street
- WRENN ID
- carved-loft-elm
- 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
- 16, St John Street, Wells
- OS grid reference
- ST 548 454
- Coordinates
- 51.20657, -2.64799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 16 on St John Street is an early 19th-century house that is part of a row of buildings. The exterior is rendered and colourwashed over rubble, topped with a clay pantiled roof that extends on both sides, and features a brick chimney stack. The house has two storeys and two bays. It has sash windows with 12 panes and thick glazing bars in plain openings. The ground floor bay on the left has a moulded flat hood. There is a 20th-century entrance door on the right, set within a timber architrave and topped with a pediment-style timber hood supported by brackets. The interior has not been inspected. Nos. 8-18 on St John Street form a terrace that maintains a consistent design.
Local climate
16, St John 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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