York House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
York House
- WRENN ID
- buried-ledge-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- York House, 3, Chamberlain Street, Wells, BA5 2PE
- OS grid reference
- ST 548 458
- Coordinates
- 51.21026, -2.64705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
York House is a house in a terrace of five, built in the early 19th century. It has a rendered exterior with stone dressings, all colourwashed, and features a Welsh slate roof and a red brick chimney stack. The building has a double-depth plan and is two storeys high with an attic and basement, comprising two bays.
The exterior includes a plinth and end pilasters that return as an eaves band course. The sash windows are set in plain architraves, with a 16-pane window in the ground floor of bay 1 and a 12-pane window on the first floor. The entrance is located in the lower bay 2 and features a six-panel door with a rectangular fanlight that has ornamental glazing. This is framed by a stone doorcase with Tuscan pilasters, paterae, dosserets, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice beneath a plain central blocking. There are small flat-roofed dormers with slate cheeks and two-light small-pane casements, and a cast-iron ogee gutter. Grilles in the pavement provide access to the basement. York House is part of a consistent and largely unchanged terrace.
The interior has not been inspected. The houses numbered 1 to 9 (odd) form a cohesive early 19th-century terrace design.
Local climate
York House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- 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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