17, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Building.
17, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- solemn-plinth-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 17, Fore Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01426, -3.10313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 Fore Street is likely an early 17th century timber-framed building. It features a three-storey gabled front that is lower in elevation compared to No. 16. The building has an old tiled roof with bargeboards and Georgian sash windows with glazing bars in the first-floor bay. The ground floor includes a double shop front with a cornice supported by volutes. This property is part of an important group that includes No. 1A Billet Street, No. 66 The County Hotel, the Brendon Bar, and No. 8 East Street, alongside other listed buildings in Cheapside, Fore Street, and the Parade.
Local climate
17, Fore Street 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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