17, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House.
17, High Street
- WRENN ID
- dim-grate-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, High Street, Wells, BA5 2AA
- OS grid reference
- ST 549 457
- Coordinates
- 51.20893, -2.64639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located at 17 High Street in Wells, is a mid-19th century house with a shop. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings, all of which have been colourwashed. The roof is not visible due to a parapet.
The exterior features three storeys and two bays. It has a moulded cornice with a plain parapet. The ground floor includes a plain three-unit display window with a tiled stall riser set in a rendered surround. Above this, there are sash windows: a 12-pane window on the first floor and a 9-pane window on the second floor, all in plain openings with stone sills and gauged brick flat arches.
Inside, the ground floor has been completely modified to accommodate the shop, and much of the first floor has been stripped. There is an early 19th-century staircase leading to the second floor, which has curved winders at the base. On the second floor, there are some 19th-century doors and partitions, as well as blocked fireplaces. The rear of the building has 20th-century extensions, mostly two storeys high, with flat roofs.
Local climate
17, 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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