27, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. Shop with house and offices. 1 related planning application.
27, High Street
- WRENN ID
- odd-garret-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1953
- Type
- Shop with house and offices
- Address
- 27, High Street, Wells, BA5 2AA
- OS grid reference
- ST 549 457
- Coordinates
- 51.20874, -2.6466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 27 High Street is a shop with a house and offices above, built in the early 19th century. The building features ashlar stonework and has a roof that is hidden by a parapet on three sides.
It stands four storeys high and has three bays. There are panelled pilasters at each end, a band course between the first and second floors, a deep moulded cornice, and a plain parapet. The ground floor has a later 20th-century shop front with central plain doors set in a deep recess. To the right, also in a recess, is a doorway that provides access to the upper floors of Nos 27 and 29.
The upper floors have sash windows in plain openings, with tall 15-pane units on the first floor and 12-pane units on the second and third floors. The interior of the ground floor has been cleared to create a shop, while the rooms above maintain a general Regency character, featuring ceiling cornices, doors, and doorcases at the first-floor level. The upper floors have not been seen.
Local climate
27, 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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