2, Holyrood Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. House. 1 related planning application.

2, Holyrood Street

WRENN ID
iron-chancel-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1976
Type
House
Address
2, Holyrood Street, Chard Town, TA20 2AH
OS grid reference
ST 321 085
Coordinates
50.87251, -2.96591
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a mid-18th century house, later used as a shop. It is located on Holyrood Street in Chard. The exterior is painted brick with painted stone platbands and keystones. The second floor has slate-hanging, and the roof is slate with a brick stack to the gable end. The building is two storeys with an attic, originally featuring a two-window front, but now with three windows to the second floor. There are two fretted gabled dormers and a fretted bargeboard to the left gable. The windows are mid-19th century two/two-pane sashes. A mid-19th century shopfront is present, including a central door for the shop and an entrance to the upper storeys to the left. The interior remains uninspected.

Local climate

2, Holyrood Street receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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.

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