Phoenix Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Hotel. 6 related planning applications.
Phoenix Hotel
- WRENN ID
- old-rafter-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Phoenix Hotel, East Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 229 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01455, -3.09916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Phoenix Hotel is a good three-storey building with a basement, dating from the early 19th century. The upper parts are made of painted brick and feature pilasters decorated with an incised key-pattern ornament. The ground floor is finished in rusticated stucco. It has a moulded cornice and a blocking course. There are four sash windows with glazing bars, and the first-floor windows have good wrought-iron balconies. The ground floor includes round-headed openings and an elliptical arch, along with double six-panel wooden doors. To the right, there is a small shop front. Additionally, there are good contemporary stable buildings located in the yard at the rear.
Local climate
Phoenix Hotel 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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