The Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. Town hall. 6 related planning applications.
The Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- twisted-chamber-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- The Town Hall, the Square, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 080 277
- Coordinates
- 51.04214, -3.31257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, now shops, was built between 1841 and 1842 and features mid-20th century shopfronts. It was designed by architect Richard Carver. The building is constructed of brick and has Welsh slate roofs. The central block is two stories high with three bays and extends back the depth of the site, topped with a steeply pitched gable roof. Deep wooden eaves create a pediment at the gable end, which includes a tympanum that houses a clock, along with a brick and wood bell-cote that holds a bell above. The façade features round-headed sash windows with glazing bars, and a string course that runs around the windows as a hood mould. This design element is also present on the side fronts. There are single-storey wings on either side with hipped roofs behind brick parapets, which contain 20th-century shopfronts, except for the extreme left three bays where the original arcades, now painted brick, have been filled with plate glass.
Local climate
The Town Hall receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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