The Lawn (Royal British Legion Club) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Club.
The Lawn (Royal British Legion Club)
- WRENN ID
- watchful-brass-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Club
- Address
- The Lawn (Royal British Legion Club), Mary Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 242
- Coordinates
- 51.01227, -3.10192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lawn, also known as the Royal British Legion Club, is a building dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is situated at right angles to Mary Street and is two storeys high with a rendered exterior. The building features a moulded cornice and a hipped slate roof, with the center of the front façade slightly projecting. There are three windows with plain surrounds and sill brackets, along with a three-light canted bay and a three-light window on the ground floor to the left and right. The upper floor windows have glazing bars, while the ground floor has a large central Tuscan doorcase with an open pediment. The entrance includes modern double doors, a small semi-circular doorway with a fanlight, and a six-panel door facing the street.
The Lawn is part of a group of listed buildings that includes Mary Street House, the Unitarian Chapel, and the School on Mary Street, as well as Wilton House in Hammets Walk and numbers 1 to 14 Upper High Street.
Local climate
The Lawn (Royal British Legion Club) 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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