Number 28 and Attached Buildings to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House with shop. 4 related planning applications.
Number 28 and Attached Buildings to Rear
- WRENN ID
- lesser-minaret-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House with shop
- Address
- Number 28 and Attached Buildings to Rear, High Street, Wells, BA5 2SG
- OS grid reference
- ST 548 457
- Coordinates
- 51.20893, -2.6473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 28 and the attached buildings to the rear are a house with a shop, dating from the late 18th century, with an early 17th-century building at the back. The structure is made of red brick with stone dressings and has a rendered parapet. It features a hipped Welsh slate roof and brick chimney stacks.
The exterior is three storeys high and has three bays. The ground floor includes a through passage with early 20th-century flush panel doors to the left, followed by a later 20th-century shop front with plain glass doors nearly in the centre of the second bay, topped by a medium-depth plain fascia. The upper floors have sash windows in plain openings, complete with stone sills and flat gauged brick arches. The first floor has 16-pane windows, while the second floor has 12-pane windows, all beneath a cornice and plain parapet. The rear of the main building features a 12-pane horizontal sliding sash window on the second floor.
Inside the front building, the ground floor has been opened up, but on the first floor, there are four fielded-panel doors and chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops. In the southeast corner, there is an 18th-century arched recess with a cupboard underneath. A carved corbel stone, possibly depicting a head, is located in the cupboard under the stairs. The second floor mostly has 19th-century partitioning, and the cellar was not seen.
At the back, there is an early 20th-century extension, followed by a crosswing that oversails the throughway and dates from the 19th century. Behind this is the 17th-century building, which is two storeys high and positioned at right angles to the road. It has a modern roof but retains two ovolo-mould stone mullioned windows—one with three lights and the other with four lights—though these are blocked internally. The windows still contain some old rectangular leaded glazing. Attached to the north end of this building are former stables, likely from the 18th century, featuring collar-beam roof trusses and diagonal windbracing, along with a brick paviour floor. There is a timber partition across the partial first floor, and in the west wall towards the rear, there are traces of a pointed arch doorway that is now blocked.
Local climate
Number 28 and Attached Buildings to Rear 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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