Bow Street Emporium is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. Shop, house. 3 related planning applications.
Bow Street Emporium
- WRENN ID
- ancient-outpost-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1986
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- Bow Street Emporium, Langport, TA10 9PN
- OS grid reference
- ST 418 267
- Coordinates
- 51.03709, -2.83045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bow Street Emporium is a building that likely underwent remodelling in the 19th century, originally dating from the 18th century. It features a brick construction in Flemish bond with Ham stone dressings, all of which are colourwashed. The roof is made of Welsh slate and has a shallow pitch between coped gables, topped with a brick chimney stack. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays.
Notable architectural details include rusticated quoins at the first floor, a cornice moulding, and a shallow plain parapet. The plain sash windows on the upper floor are set within architraves that have keystoned segmental arches and bracketed cills. The ground floor has a timber shopfront that spans the entire facade, featuring a four-panel door to the left under a rectangular margined fanlight. This is followed by later 20th-century recessed shop windows and central doors, which are sheltered by a 19th-century hood supported by console brackets and pilasters. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Bow Street Emporium receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings