Town Hall Offices of Wellington Weekly News is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1951. Town hall.
Town Hall Offices of Wellington Weekly News
- WRENN ID
- deep-dormer-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1951
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall Offices of Wellington Weekly News, Fore Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 139 206
- Coordinates
- 50.97859, -3.22779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, now the Offices of the Wellington Weekly News, was built in 1833. It is a tall three-storey building made of rusticated stucco, featuring a five-window front facing Fore Street. The building has quoin pilasters and a cornice with a parapet above, which includes a clock at its center. The round-headed doorway and windows add to its architectural style. A similar facade extends east along High Street, while the side elevation at the rear along North Street is constructed of red brick. The Town Hall, the Offices of the Wellington Weekly News, and Nos 1 to 5 (odd) form a group with Nos 4 and 5 Cornhill.
Local climate
Town Hall Offices of Wellington Weekly News 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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