49-55, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1976. Commercial. 5 related planning applications.
49-55, High Street
- WRENN ID
- rough-bracket-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1976
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 49-55, High Street, Wellington, TA21 8QY
- OS grid reference
- ST 140 207
- Coordinates
- 50.98013, -3.22562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of terraced buildings on High Street, likely dating from the 18th century, and subsequently altered. The two-storey facades are of painted brick. There are four windows, with a splayed bay to the left, topped by a gabled dormer. One original sash window remains in the centre of the row. A Georgian doorcase with a pediment is located to the left. The shop fronts on the right have been modernized. The buildings are listed for their group value, alongside Nos. 41 to 47 (odd) and the gatepiers of No. 47.
Local climate
49-55, High Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 6 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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