5-9, The Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
5-9, The Bridge
- WRENN ID
- calm-quoin-martin
- 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
- 5-9, The Bridge, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 226 247
- Coordinates
- 51.01718, -3.10386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 5 to 9 on The Bridge is a mid to late 19th-century building consisting of two parts, located next to Tone Bridge. The left section has three storeys, while the right section has two storeys. The building is constructed of brick, with the right side painted. It features slate roofs with eaves, and the right side has a hipped roof. Each part of the building has two windows, with sash windows and glazing bars present only on the second floor of the left section. Number 9 includes a small return face on its north side, which has a charming three-light oriel window that overlooks Tone Bridge. The shop fronts for Nos 5 and 7 are modern, while No 9 has modern shop fronts beneath a 19th-century cornice supported by corbels that depict a mermaid and merman resting on scallop shells. Nos 5 to 9 and Tone Bridge are part of a group.
Local climate
5-9, The Bridge 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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