17, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. A C19 House and shop.
17, High Street
- WRENN ID
- seventh-wicket-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- House and shop
- Address
- 17, High Street, Axbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 430 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28719, -2.81852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 High Street is a house and shop dating from the early 19th century. The building is rendered and features a slate roof with wide eaves. It has two storeys and two bays, with flush mounted 16-pane sash windows on the first floor, which are adorned with stepped voussoirs. The ground floor has a late 19th-century shop front that includes paired central half-glazed doors, with a pilaster on each side. Fluted consoles support a dentilled fascia above the shop front. The core of this building is likely medieval in origin.
Local climate
17, High Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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