1, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1963. House. 3 related planning applications.
1, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- watchful-sandstone-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Fore Street, Cannington, TA5 2HQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 257 396
- Coordinates
- 51.15142, -3.0635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, known as No 1 Fore Street, is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of red sandstone ashlar with painted, emphasised chamfered quoins. The facade features a moulded cornice and a tall parapet with corner pilasters, creating an elevated centre section. This section has pilasters that form five blank 'window' openings, and the overall moulded parapet has coped verges and a double Roman tile roof with end brick stacks.
The symmetrical facade has two storeys and an attic, comprising five bays with flush mounted 12-pane sash windows that have exposed sash boxes. The windows are highlighted by emphasised voussoirs and prominent triple keystones. The central door opening is framed by an architrave with square block rustication on the jambs, topped by a cinqpartite keystone that extends through a pulvinated frieze to a triangular pediment, featuring paired 20th-century glazed doors.
On each gable of the returns, there are two blank circular openings set in dressed stone surrounds. There is also a secondary wing that is two storeys high, has three bays, and is set back on each side, with 20th-century casements.
Local climate
1, Fore Street receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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