24-27, Taunton Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. Terrace of houses.
24-27, Taunton Street
- WRENN ID
- tangled-corbel-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1970
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Address
- 24-27, Taunton Street, South Swindon, SN1 5EE
- OS grid reference
- SU 145 847
- Coordinates
- 51.56101, -1.79115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
24-27 Taunton Street is a terrace of four houses built between 1853 and 1854 for the Great Western Railway. The houses are constructed from ashlar limestone set in black mortar and feature a slate roof with ashlar stacks. Each house has two bays and is two rooms deep, with a side through passage. The entrance includes 20-pane glazed doors set in chamfered surrounds, accessed by one step. The windows are four-pane sashes, also with chamfered surrounds. The properties underwent extensive renovation around 1974. This terrace is part of a village designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to accommodate the workforce for the Great Western Railway, with construction starting in 1842 and most buildings completed by 1855. The village is noted for being one of Britain's best-preserved and architecturally ambitious railway settlements.
Local climate
24-27, Taunton Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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