21a, St John Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 2000. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

21a, St John Street

WRENN ID
cold-tin-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 2000
Type
Cottage
Address
21a, St John Street, Wells, BA5 1SW
OS grid reference
ST 548 454
Coordinates
51.20666, -2.64781
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

21A St John Street is a cottage that is part of a row of buildings, dating from the early 19th century and representing a remodelling of an earlier property. It shares its roof with No. 21. The exterior is rendered and colourwashed over rubble, topped with a Welsh slate roof that continues to the north and features a plain gable to the south. A tall brick chimney stack sits on a stone base. The cottage is two storeys high and has a single bay. On the ground floor, there is a 24-pane horizontal sliding sash window, and above it, a 2-light small-pane casement window. To the right, there is a boarded door in a plain opening. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

21a, St John 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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