10 and 11, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. A C19 Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
10 and 11, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- idle-span-raven
- 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
- 10 and 11, Fore Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01428, -3.10256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 10 and 11 on Fore Street is a building dating from the early to mid-19th century. It features a hipped slate roof and a central chimney stack, and it stands three storeys tall. The left side is finished in stucco while the right side is made of red brick, with a stringcourse separating the two materials. There are six windows in total, three on each floor. The first floor has round-headed openings with an impost stringcourse; No 10 has blocked heads while No 11 features traceried heads. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and there are modern shop fronts at the ground level. 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, along with other listed buildings in Cheapside, Fore Street, and the Parade.
Local climate
10 and 11, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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