Wessex News; Second Premises West of North East Corner Premises is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. A C19 Shop.

Wessex News; Second Premises West of North East Corner Premises

WRENN ID
slow-belfry-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 February 1986
Type
Shop
Address
Wessex News; Second Premises West of North East Corner Premises, Cheapside, Langport
OS grid reference
ST 420 268
Coordinates
51.03772, -2.82829
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wessex News is a shop built around 1830. It features ashlar stone and pebbledash rendering, all painted, and has a hipped Welsh slate roof with a very shallow pitch and no visible chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high with two bays and a one-bay return on the east side. It has a plinth, pilasters decorated with incised anthemion ornament, and an eaves course. The fascia serves as a string course. On the upper floor, there are 12-pane sash windows, some of which have crown glass panes. On the ground floor, there is a 16-pane display window to the right of a 20th-century part-glazed door with a diamond-glazed fanlight above. The east return matches the main façade, featuring a 12-pane display window that is likely original, set over recessed ashlar stone stall risers. The interior has not been seen, but the ground floor has been altered.

Local climate

Wessex News; Second Premises West of North East Corner Premises receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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