70, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
70, High Street
- WRENN ID
- slow-rood-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 70, High Street, West Coker, BA22 9AT
- OS grid reference
- ST 514 135
- Coordinates
- 50.91962, -2.69236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 70 is one of a terrace of six houses dating to 1887. The construction is stone, with ashlar dressings, and features a plain clay tile roof with moulded ridges and coped gables. A brick chimney stack is also present. The house is two storeys high, with two wide bays, the left-hand bay projecting and gabled. The prominent window on the first floor has a large 4-centred arch with Gothic-style tracery, supported by a string course. Above this is a labelled narrow 4-light window, from which the mullions have been removed and a 20th-century casement window has been inserted. An obelisk finial adorns the gable. The second bay has a 4-centred arched recess for a boarded door, and a 20th-century casement window replacing a former 3-light mullioned window. A panel of fish-scale tiles is above the door, incorporating a casement window. The interior has not been inspected. The terrace exhibits remarkably well-detailed "spoiled symmetry" and is in the style of Norman Shaw, foreshadowing the design of early "Garden City" houses; it represents an early and largely unaltered example.
Local climate
70, High Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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