2, Priory Road is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House, offices. 3 related planning applications.
2, Priory Road
- WRENN ID
- fallow-bronze-saffron
- 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, offices
- Address
- 2, Priory Road, Wells, BA5 1SY
- OS grid reference
- ST 547 455
- Coordinates
- 51.20734, -2.64875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Priory Road is a house, now used as offices with a flat above, located on a triangular corner site. It dates from around 1800 and is built of fine-jointed red brick with Bath stone dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and is hidden by a parapet, while the rear wings are constructed from rubble with double-Roman tiles and feature brick chimney stacks.
The exterior of the building has three storeys and five bays, divided into three and two. It has a stone plinth, rusticated plain pilasters, a cornice, and a plain coped parapet. On the ground floor, there are two modern small-pane shop window units, along with an original semicircular arched rusticated stone door surround in bay two, which includes a cast-iron fanlight. The upper floors feature sash windows, with 12-pane windows on the first floor and 9-pane windows on the second floor. These windows are set in plain openings with gauged brick flat arches, although the arches for bays four and five have a different pattern. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
2, Priory Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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