Main Entrance Block of Trinity Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Former poor law institution.
Main Entrance Block of Trinity Hospital
- WRENN ID
- fallow-flagstone-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Former poor law institution
- Address
- Main Entrance Block of Trinity Hospital, Trinity Road, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 236 243
- Coordinates
- 51.01365, -3.09
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main entrance block of Trinity Hospital is a former Poor Law Institution, likely built in the mid-19th century. It stands three stories tall and faces south, with a central section that projects forward. The building features a slate roof with an imitation pediment at the center and eaves supported by paired wooden brackets at the corners. It is constructed of yellow brick with ashlar dressings, showcasing banded quoins and a moulded stringcourse above the ground floor. The window arrangement consists of a 4-3-4 pattern, with architrave surrounds above and banded surrounds with sills on curved brackets for the round-headed ground floor windows. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and there is a central round-headed doorway. At the rear, there are three wings that originally formed part of the building, radiating from a central hut, but these have been significantly altered and are not included in the listing.
Local climate
Main Entrance Block of Trinity Hospital 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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