8, East Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. A C18 Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
8, East Street
- WRENN ID
- first-brick-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 8, East Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 228 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01416, -3.10112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 8 East Street is a three-storey building with a two-window painted brick front, likely dating from the 18th century. It features a hipped old tile roof and sash windows set in painted reveals with glazing bars. The ground floor includes a distinctive bow window and a large round-headed archway to the left. The central doorway is framed by an architrave surround and leads up five steps to a six-panel door. This building was previously known as No 40, but the number 8 is displayed over the entrance. It is located in the alley behind Cheapside, next to the Brendon Bar. No 8 East Street, along with No 1A Billet Street, No 66 The County Hotel, and the Brendon Bar, forms an important group with other listed buildings in Cheapside, Fore Street, and the Parade.
Local climate
8, East 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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