Taunton and Somerset Hospital (Main Block on Street) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Hospital.
Taunton and Somerset Hospital (Main Block on Street)
- WRENN ID
- moated-paling-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Taunton and Somerset Hospital (Main Block on Street), East Reach
- OS grid reference
- ST 235 245
- Coordinates
- 51.01554, -3.09172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Taunton and Somerset Hospital, located on East Reach, was founded in 1809, with the first part of the building completed in 1812. The side wings were added between 1870 and 1873. The main front has been considerably altered. The hospital features a four-storey central block made of brown brick, with string courses and hipped slate roofs that have projecting eaves supported by wooden brackets. The central block includes five windows, with the centre bay projecting forward. There is a large ashlar porch at the upper ground floor, which is accessed by two flights of entrance steps with railings. The side pavilions are three storeys high and have three-light sash windows with pilaster detailing.
Local climate
Taunton and Somerset Hospital (Main Block on 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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