7 Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Commercial building. 6 related planning applications.
7 Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- floating-barrel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 7 Fore Street, Taunton, TA1 1HX
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01423, -3.10226
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
7 Fore Street is a late 19th-century building that stands three storeys tall and is constructed of freestone. It features a deep cornice with brackets and a parapet, along with banded quoins and a rusticated ground floor. There is a sill band adorned with egg and dart motifs beneath the first-floor windows, and volutes with foliage are positioned to the left and right under the sill band. The building has five windows, with architrave surrounds on the upper floors. The first-floor windows are particularly notable for their alternating segmental and open triangular pediments, which are supported by carved brackets. This building is part of an important group that includes No 1A Billet Street, No 66 The County Hotel, the Brendon Bar, and No 8 East Street, all of which are listed buildings in the area.
Local climate
7 Fore 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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