54, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1972. Offices.

54, High Street

WRENN ID
sombre-bronze-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 August 1972
Type
Offices
Address
54, High Street, Wells
OS grid reference
ST 548 456
Coordinates
51.20839, -2.64807
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 54 High Street is a building that likely dates from the early 19th century and has been converted into offices from its original use as a house. The exterior is rendered and colourwashed, topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof behind a tall parapet. It stands three storeys high with two bays. The façade features plain side pilasters, a moulded cornice, and plain coping along the parapet, along with a brick end stack. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front with multi-paned windows and glazed doors on either side. The first floor contains 12-pane sash windows with pediment hoods supported by console brackets, while the second floor has smaller 12-pane sashes set in plain openings. The rear elevation has been rendered and significantly altered in the 20th century, featuring casement windows and vertical timber boarding on part of the second floor. Additionally, there is a 20th-century extension at the rear. The interior has been reshaped in the later 20th century.

Local climate

54, 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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