8, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1976. Commercial building.
8, High Street
- WRENN ID
- cold-corner-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1976
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 8, High Street, Wellington
- OS grid reference
- ST 139 206
- Coordinates
- 50.97869, -3.22716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 8 High Street is a three-storey building with a three-window stucco front, dating from around 1830. It features a slate roof that is hipped to the left. The building has moulded window architraves and a Greek Doric doorcase complete with columns and an entablature. There is a later shop front added to the building. It is part of a group that includes Nos 6 to 10 (even), 10A and 10B, as well as Nos 12 to 18 (even) and the Friends' Meeting House.
Local climate
8, High Street 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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