Brick Wall Running East from Reat Ofno 14 and Dragon Book Shop, Corporation Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Wall.

Brick Wall Running East from Reat Ofno 14 and Dragon Book Shop, Corporation Street

WRENN ID
long-portal-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1975
Type
Wall
Address
Brick Wall Running East from Reat Ofno 14 and Dragon Book Shop, Corporation Street, Bath Place, Taunton
OS grid reference
ST 225 244
Coordinates
51.01407, -3.10574
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a red brick wall that runs east from the rear of No 14 and the Dragon Book Shop on Corporation Street. It stands approximately 6 to 7 feet high and features a moulded datestone set at the top, located about halfway between No 14 and No 13, with the inscription "w I M 1694." The wall has a blocked elliptical headed archway towards the east end, and at this end, the wall has been refaced on the exterior, which includes a large elliptical carriage arch and a lower pedestrian entrance. This brick wall, along with No 14 and the Dragon Book Shop, forms a group with the listed buildings in the Crescent.

Local climate

Brick Wall Running East from Reat Ofno 14 and Dragon Book Shop, Corporation 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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