Co Op is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1976. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
Co Op
- WRENN ID
- small-railing-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1976
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Co Op, 1, Fore Street, Wellington
- OS grid reference
- ST 139 206
- Coordinates
- 50.97843, -3.22778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 1 (Co-op) is a three-storey building located on the north side of Fore Street, dating from the early 19th century. It features a painted brick front with end pilasters and an eaves gutter cornice beneath a slate roof. There is a sill band at the second floor level. The first floor has three windows, including three-light canted bays on the sides. Some of the original sash windows still have glazing bars. The ground floor is rusticated on the sides and has a modern double shop front. This building adjoins the Offices of Wellington Weekly News and is part of a group that includes the Town Hall and Nos 4 and 5 Cornhill.
Local climate
Co Op 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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