48, East Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. A C18 Residential.

48, East Street

WRENN ID
night-rotunda-heath
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 June 1952
Type
Residential
Address
48, East Street, Taunton, TA1 3NA
OS grid reference
ST 230 245
Coordinates
51.01471, -3.0984
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 48 East Street is a good two-storey building from the mid-18th century, constructed of red brick. It is located to the right of Nos. 1-10 Grays Alms Houses. The centre of the front façade projects forward and features stone or stucco bands. The building has a parapet with a dentil cornice and five windows that have architrave surrounds and rusticated voussoirs, although the glazing bars have been altered. The doorcase is adorned with an architrave surround and a pediment supported by consoles, with a window above that also has flanking consoles. Modern shop fronts are present on both the left and right sides. Nos. 1-10 Grays Alms Houses and Nos. 48 to 54, in sequence, form a group.

Local climate

48, East 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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