Woolworth is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1976. House. 2 related planning applications.
Woolworth
- WRENN ID
- small-dormer-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Woolworth, 17, Fore Street, Wellington
- OS grid reference
- ST 138 205
- Coordinates
- 50.97805, -3.22835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woolworth is a fairly large 18th-century house located on the north side of Fore Street. It has an altered ground floor and features a three-storey stucco front with end pilasters and a moulded eaves cornice. The roof is hipped and covered with slate. The building has three windows, with unusual small rectangular openings on the first floor. The sashes have thick glazing bars. The modern shop front includes older double wooden doors leading to a passage on the left. Woolworth is part of a group with Nos 17, 19, 19A, and Nos 21 and 21A.
Local climate
Woolworth receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 1 transaction since 2004
- 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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