19 and 21, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House. 2 related planning applications.
19 and 21, High Street
- WRENN ID
- patient-basalt-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- 19 and 21, High Street, Wells, BA5 2AA
- OS grid reference
- ST 549 457
- Coordinates
- 51.2088, -2.64635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
19 and 21 High Street is a house with a shop, dating from around 1800, with facades that have been adapted for a 20th-century building. The exterior is rendered and colourwashed, and the roof is not visible behind the parapet.
The building has three storeys and four bays, with the first bay projecting and differing in detail from the others. There is a band course between the floors, but this is only present in bays two to four. The building features a moulded cornice with a plain parapet above. A later 20th-century shop front is set within a rendered surround, with pairs of entrance doors in bays one and three, both located in recesses beneath a deep fascia. Above the shop front, there are sash windows in unmoulded architraves, all with 12 panes. The panes on the first floor are long in proportion, while those on the second floor are almost square.
The facade from around 1800 is a significant feature in this important streetscape. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
19 and 21, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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