The Lilacs is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Lilacs
- WRENN ID
- spare-mortar-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Lilacs, 16 and 18, Wellington Road, Taunton, TA1 4EQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 221 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01391, -3.11152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lilacs comprise a pair of early to mid-19th century, two-storey houses built of brown brick. The houses feature a wall treatment of recessed panels and have low-pitched slate roofs with wide eaves supported by wooden brackets. The windows are sash windows with thin glazing bars, and the ground floor incorporates splayed bays projecting from the front. Doorways are set back to the left and right. Number 16 has a modern extension to the left of the front elevation. Nos 2 to 18 (even) form a group with the listed buildings in Park Street, with the exception of St Paul's House.
Local climate
The Lilacs 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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