42, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1974. Shop. 1 related planning application.
42, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- muted-arch-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1974
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 42, Fore Street, Bridgwater, TA6 3NG
- OS grid reference
- ST 299 370
- Coordinates
- 51.12862, -3.00311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 on Fore Street is a shop built in the early to mid 19th century. It features painted Flemish-bond brickwork and painted stone stepped voussoirs above the upper floor windows. The roof is covered with double Roman tiles and has a brick stack on the right party wall. The building has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys tall with a two-window range. The upper floors have 20th-century 2/2-pane sash windows, and there is a 20th-century shop front. The interior was not inspected. This building is included for its group value with other nearby structures.
Local climate
42, Fore Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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