21 and 23, Commercial Road is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1974. A C19 Court house, police station. 1 related planning application.
21 and 23, Commercial Road
- WRENN ID
- noble-wattle-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1974
- Type
- Court house, police station
- Address
- 21 and 23, Commercial Road, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5BU
- OS grid reference
- ST 617 435
- Coordinates
- 51.19029, -2.5487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A courthouse and police station, later used as a police station and store, was built in 1858 by C. Wainwright and R. Heard. The building is constructed of coursed squared limestone rubble with dressed stone detail, a slate roof, and ashlar stacks. It is designed in the Jacobean Revival style with a symmetrical facade. The building is two storeys and an attic, with eleven bays. It features stone mullion and transom windows with four-centred lights, some with angled labels. Wings project at right angles to the facade in the third and ninth bays, and three-storey towers flank the building in the second and tenth bays. Each tower has a flat roof and an open porch at its base, formed of two four-centred archways. There are four doorways with chamfered stone surrounds and studded plank doors, secured with elaborately scrolled cast iron hinges. Shaped end gables with copings are present on each wing, as are projecting wings. The structure was erected two years following the establishment of the Somerset County Constabulary.
Local climate
21 and 23, Commercial Road receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2019
- 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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