Fons George House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
Fons George House
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-window-sepia
- 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
- Fons George House, Taunton, TA1 3JT
- OS grid reference
- ST 224 238
- Coordinates
- 51.00861, -3.10625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fons George is a large house, likely dating from the mid-19th century, situated in its own grounds opposite St George's Church. It has been divided into two properties. The house is composed of two large, two-storey gabled wings, with a smaller gabled wing attached to the right wing. A low crenellated screen wall runs between the wings. The walls are rendered, and the roof is slate-covered. The house features curved and fretted bargeboards and eaves boards, with a single window in each gable. The windows are paired sashes under rectangular dripmoulds, with glazing bars. Each gable is decorated with diamond panels featuring cusping and shields.
Local climate
Fons George House 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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