Belmont House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. House.
Belmont House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-roof-weasel
- 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
- Belmont House, Belmont Drive, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 220 238
- Coordinates
- 51.00882, -3.11189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Belmont House is a good mid-19th century house that was formerly situated in its own grounds. It is constructed of ashlar and has two storeys, with a central section that projects forward. The building features a cornice and blocking course adorned with anthemion motifs at the center. There are pilasters with panels and incised ornament, as well as a sill band. The ground floor has three windows, each with architrave surrounds and cornices, and the windows are sashes with glazing bars. A central porch with fluted Doric columns is located next to the doorway, which is topped by a triglyph frieze.
Local climate
Belmont 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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