21, Chamberlain Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House. 1 related planning application.

21, Chamberlain Street

WRENN ID
stark-oriel-mallow
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
21, Chamberlain Street, Wells, BA5 2PQ
OS grid reference
ST 547 458
Coordinates
51.20963, -2.64887
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 21 Chamberlain Street is a house in a row that has been converted into flats. It dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century, but may include earlier work at the rear. The exterior is rendered and colourwashed, with stone dressings and rubble at the rear. It features a single Roman clay tiled roof with a coped gable on the left and ashlar stone chimney stacks. The building has a symmetrical broad frontage with two gabled rear wings.

The house is two storeys high and has three wide bays. It includes a plinth, plain pilasters at the ends and between the first and second bays, a cornice, and a plain parapet. The outer bays have angled bay windows with plain sashes beneath lead bell-hip roofs, while the first floor has plain sash windows in each bay. Above the first-floor windows is a considerable stretch of plain walling, approximately one meter high. The entrance is located in the lower second bay, featuring a six-panel door with a rectangular fanlight, framed by a doorcase with Doric pilasters, a shallow entablature, and a moulded flat hood. The main ridge stack is positioned to the left of the entrance bay, and the rear wings have steep-pitched gabled roofs.

The interior has not been inspected. This property was built or refaced at the same time as the adjoining No. 23 and has unfortunately lost all of its original sash glazing bars.

Local climate

21, Chamberlain 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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