Somerset College of Art is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. College.
Somerset College of Art
- WRENN ID
- hollow-chapel-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- College
- Address
- Somerset College of Art, Corporation Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 225 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01439, -3.10492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Somerset College of Art is an imposing neo-Classical building dated 1905, designed by C. Samson and A. B. Cottam. It features two storeys and a basement, constructed of ashlar stone with a rusticated plinth. A central triangular pediment, adorned with a cartouche, artistic putti, and elaborate foliation, rises above a dentil eaves cornice and a balustered parapet. The façade is divided by Ionic pilasters, with a recessed central section flanked by Ionic columns. The second (mezzanine) floor includes semi-circular windows with keystones and aprons, while the ground floor windows have architrave surrounds, and there are semi-circular openings in the basement. The building has five windows with large metal frames. It is part of a group of listed buildings in Bath Place and Corporation Street, excluding No. 34 and the Dragon Book Shop and Wall.
Local climate
Somerset College of Art receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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