73, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. A Victorian House, shop.

73, High Street

WRENN ID
still-garret-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Type
House, shop
Period
Victorian
Address
73, High Street, Wells
OS grid reference
ST 547 456
Coordinates
51.20794, -2.64921
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 73 High Street is a house with a shop, built in the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring stone dressings, and has a Welsh slate gabled roof behind a parapet with brick chimney stacks.

The building has three storeys with an attic and consists of two bays. The late 19th-century shop front is framed by panelled pilasters and a thin fascia, with a recessed doorway and a part-glazed door to the right. The transom display windows are adorned with leaded coloured glass toplights. Above the shop front, there are plain end pilasters, sill band courses, a moulded cornice, and plain coping at the parapet. The windows are margin-pane sashes set in moulded stone architraves, with small brackets supporting the second-floor sills. A flat-roofed dormer window is located over the first bay.

The interior has not been inspected. This building is similar to, but not identical with, the adjoining No. 75.

Local climate

73, 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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