57, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Shop with house.
57, High Street
- WRENN ID
- broken-trefoil-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Shop with house
- Address
- 57, High Street, Wells
- OS grid reference
- ST 548 456
- Coordinates
- 51.20817, -2.64795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 57 High Street is a shop with an attached house, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from Doulting stone ashlar, with a roof that is not visible behind the parapet and features a brick chimney stack.
The building has three storeys and two bays. It is adorned with panelled pilasters, a moulded cornice, and a plain parapet. The ground floor has a simple shop front, which includes a left-hand door, a green marble stall riser, and a six-fielded-panel door to the right. The upper floors are fitted with 12-pane sash windows that are set in moulded eared architraves.
The interior of the ground floor has been adapted for use as a shop.
Local climate
57, 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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