Northtown House Yarde House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. House.
Northtown House Yarde House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-cloister-jet
- 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
- Northtown House Yarde House, 1, Staplegrove Road, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 225 249
- Coordinates
- 51.01912, -3.10608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yarde House and Northtown House is a large mid to late 19th-century building located on the corner of Staplegrove Road and Wood Street. The house stands three storeys tall and is constructed of brown brick with ashlar dressings. It features a cornice and blocking course with a handrail, and has a slate roof. The building includes thick sill bands and panelled pilasters, with six windows, one of which is curved at the corner. All windows have banded voussoirs and rusticated surrounds on the ground floor. The sashes are fitted with glazing bars. There are also two round-headed doorways, both with rusticated surrounds, leading to six-panel doors.
Local climate
Northtown House Yarde 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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