2 to 4 (consec) Upper High Street and wall along street at No 4 is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Terrace houses.
2 to 4 (consec) Upper High Street and wall along street at No 4
- WRENN ID
- calm-turret-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Terrace houses
- Address
- 2 to 4 (consec) Upper High Street and wall along street at No 4, Taunton, TA1 3PX
- OS grid reference
- ST 226 241
- Coordinates
- 51.01181, -3.10358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 2 to 4 Upper High Street are a terrace of stucco houses from the early 19th century, located next to No 1 and facing Vivary Park. No 2 is slightly set forward and has two storeys, while the other houses have two storeys plus a basement. The roofs are hipped and covered with slate, featuring projecting eaves on Nos 3 and 4, which also include plain pilasters. Each house has four or five windows; No 2 has rectangular hoodmoulds and sash windows, while No 4 features casements with some Gothic heads above the lights. No 2 has a verandah with a rear-to roof supported by brackets, and No 4 has a trellised verandah at the basement level. A high wall with a round-headed doorway runs along the street, connecting to No 5.
These houses, along with Nos 1 to 14 Upper High Street, the listed buildings in Vivary Park, and those on Mount Street, form a group with the School, Unitarian Chapel, The Lawn, Mary Street House in Mary Street, and Wilton House with an ornamental column in Hammets Walk.
Local climate
2 to 4 (consec) Upper High Street and wall along street at No 4 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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