9, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Shop, office. 3 related planning applications.

9, High Street

WRENN ID
peeling-bailey-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Type
Shop, office
Address
9, High Street, Wells, BA5 2AA
OS grid reference
ST 549 457
Coordinates
51.20901, -2.64608
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 9 High Street is a house with a shop, now functioning as a shop with offices above. It dates from the mid-18th century and is constructed of painted ashlar stone with a hipped Welsh slate roof.

The building has three storeys and three bays, with the second and third bays projecting. It features a shallow plinth and a band course with simple panels beneath the first-floor windows, along with a partly missing sill band course on bays two and three. The moulded cornice and parapets have decorative panels that are very worn. On the ground floor, there is a four-panel door in bay one, which has a plain square fanlight and is set within a moulded architrave topped with a moulded flat hood on console brackets. Bays two and three contain a large 20th-century doorway leading to the supermarket.

The first-floor windows are 12-pane sashes in moulded architraves, each with slightly pitched hoods on console brackets. The second-floor windows are smaller 12-pane sashes in architraves, with only bay one having a moulded architrave and small console brackets under the sills, lacking hoods.

Inside, the ground floor has been absorbed into the supermarket, but the first-floor rooms still retain some ceiling cornices despite new partitioning, along with window shutters and under panels. The staircase to the second floor dates from the 18th century, and while the rooms on this floor have been slightly modified, there are no notable features in the attic.

Local climate

9, High 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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