1 and 2, Higher Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Cottage.
1 and 2, Higher Street
- WRENN ID
- solitary-cupola-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1 and 2, Higher Street, Norton Sub Hamdon
- OS grid reference
- ST 468 159
- Coordinates
- 50.94016, -2.75764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 1 and 2 Higher Street are a pair of cottages, likely built in the early 19th century. They are constructed from Ham stone that is cut and squared, with ashlar dressings and an ashlar north elevation for No. 1. The cottages feature Welsh slate roofs with stepped coped gables and stone and brick chimney stacks. They are two-storeys high with attics, and the ridges of the roofs are oriented at right angles to the road, creating two single-bay gables facing Higher Street.
Each cottage has a 16-pane sash window in a plain opening on the right side of the ground floor, with doorways in deep plain recesses to the left. On the first floors and attic of No. 2, there are plain mullioned windows with slight chamfers; the first-floor window of No. 2 is a 3-light window, while the others are 2-light. There is a small casement window in the attic of No. 1. The north elevation of No. 1 features a band course between the floors and pairs of 2-light small-pane casements at each level, set in slightly segmental-arched openings. There are 20th-century extensions to the south of No. 2. The interiors have not been seen.
Local climate
1 and 2, Higher Street receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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