72 and 74, Friarn Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1974. Cottages.
72 and 74, Friarn Street
- WRENN ID
- narrow-balcony-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1974
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- 72 and 74, Friarn Street, Bridgwater
- OS grid reference
- ST 296 368
- Coordinates
- 51.12666, -3.00718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
72 and 74 Friarn Street are a pair of attached cottages dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, likely converted from an earlier house. The exterior features painted roughcast and a pantile roof with stone coping on the right gable end, along with a brick stack positioned to the left of the center and in the rear wing. The cottages have a double-depth plan with rear wings and stand two stories tall, each with a single window range.
No. 72, located on the right, is larger and has a 20th-century door and windows. The door on the right has six raised-and-fielded panels beneath a hood supported by wrought-iron scroll brackets. To the left, there is a flat arch above a 6/6-pane sash window, which has a segmental arch framing it, and below this is a 2-light casement window at the eaves level.
No. 74 features a 20th-century door on the far left, a 3/6-pane sash window below a 2-light casement window near the eaves. The casement window has eight small panes on the left leaf and two panes on the right leaf. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
72 and 74, Friarn Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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