1 and 3, Silver Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1994. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
1 and 3, Silver Street
- WRENN ID
- under-belfry-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1994
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 1 and 3, Silver Street, Ilminster, TA19 0DH
- OS grid reference
- ST 361 145
- Coordinates
- 50.92654, -2.91021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 and 3 Silver Street is a corner shop built around 1840, constructed from Ham Hill stone ashlar and topped with a hipped, crested slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan and rises three storeys with a six-window range. It features two pilasters with incised key-patterns at the tops, one on the far right and one on the left of the Silver Street facade, which support a continuous moulded cornice beneath a low parapet wall. All windows are adorned with keystones.
On the Ditton Street side, there are three late 19th-century two-over-two pane sash windows on the first floor and six-over-six pane sash windows on the second floor. The other windows are eight-over-eight pane sashes, with two on each floor to the right, a similar curved window on the corner, and a blind window above it. The late 19th-century shop front features an entrance in Silver Street with set-back double half-glazed doors and an overlight, flanked by plate-glass windows with colonnettes topped with ornamentation. There is a curved window on the corner and a single window in Ditton Street.
The continuous fascia has cast-iron cresting, and to the far right below it is a Regency-style six-panel door with an overlight featuring a circular design flanked by diamonds. A large horizontal key on brackets hangs between the right and inside-right windows of the first floor. The interior of the ground floor has been completely altered.
Local climate
1 and 3, Silver Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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