20, South Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1988. Former farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
20, South Street
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-frieze-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1988
- Type
- Former farmhouse
- Address
- 20, South Street, Wells, BA5 1SA
- OS grid reference
- ST 549 454
- Coordinates
- 51.20683, -2.64667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former farmhouse, likely dating from the early 18th century, with later alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is currently vacant and in need of repair. The exterior is rendered with pebbledash over brick and stone rubble, and has a clay-pantile roof behind ogee-curved coped gables, with brick chimney stacks. The building follows a three-unit plan with a central stairhall.
The street-facing elevation is two bays wide. On the right side of the ground floor is a small three-light metal casement window. A four-pane sash window with exposed sash boxes sits on the left side of the first floor, both within plain surrounds. To the lower left of the elevation is a six-panel door in a timber architrave with a flat timber hood. A flat-roofed dormer with a four-pane sash window is positioned above the first-floor window. The rear south elevation has three bays with four-pane sash windows on both levels to the outer bays. A central first-floor window is a twelve-pane sash with a radially glazed semicircular head, while below it is a six-panel door set within a 20th-century rustic porch. Flat-roofed dormers with four-pane sash windows are positioned over each bay.
Inside, the building features six-panel doors, panelled cupboard doors, and a dog-leg open string staircase with stick balusters, a turned newel, and a moulded handrail. The roof structure appears to be from the late 19th century, featuring collared rafters and braces from the tie-beams to the ridge piece.
Local climate
20, South 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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