53, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House.

53, High Street

WRENN ID
swift-keystone-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
House
Address
53, High Street, Bruton, BA10 0AW
OS grid reference
ST 681 347
Coordinates
51.11145, -2.4563
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 53 High Street is a house in a row, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of local stone rubble with ashlar quoins and tooled stone dressings, topped with a concrete double Roman tile roof and featuring a large brick end chimney stack. The building has two storeys with an attic and consists of two bays. It has 12-pane sash windows that are set flush to the wall, with paired windows in the lower bay 1. The entrance, located in bay 2, features a 19th-century four-panel door set under a rectangular fanlight in a recess. There is a pitched roof dormer with a two-light casement positioned between the bays. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

53, High Street receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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