12, St John Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House. 3 related planning applications.

12, St John Street

WRENN ID
crumbling-jade-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1953
Type
House
Address
12, St John Street, Wells, BA5 1SW
OS grid reference
ST 548 454
Coordinates
51.20665, -2.64806
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 12 on St John Street is a house from the early 19th century, part of a row of similar buildings. It has a rendered and colourwashed exterior over rubble, with a clay pantiled roof that extends on both sides and a brick chimney stack. The house is two storeys high and features two bays. The sash windows have 12 panes each, with thick glazing bars in plain openings. The window in the first bay on the ground floor has a moulded flat hood above it. The entrance is located in the second bay, featuring a 20th-century door set within a timber architrave, topped with a timber pediment-type hood supported by brackets. The interior has not been inspected. Nos. 8-18 on St John Street form a terrace with a consistent design.

Local climate

12, 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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