County Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
County Hotel
- WRENN ID
- endless-banister-oak
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- County Hotel, East Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 228 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01425, -3.10066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The County Hotel is an important early 19th-century building located on East Street. It features a striking three-storey stucco front with a modillion cornice and a parapet. A moulded string course runs above the first floor, and panelled pilasters adorned with suspended anthemion motifs are present on the ground and first floors. The first floor also displays a pane with the letters 'County Hotel'. The façade includes seven sash windows, although some glazing bars are missing.
A large Tuscan porch with an architrave surrounds the central entrance, and there is access to a yard through a rusticated arch to the left, which has double wooden doors. To the left of the main block are two additional houses that are part of the same property, all unified by the stucco finish, cornice, parapet, pilasters, and anthemions. These extensions contain three windows and two windows, along with two large canted bays and a rusticated central doorway on the ground floor.
The County Hotel, along with No 1A Billet Street, No 66 The County Hotel, the Brendon Bar, and No 8 East Street, forms a significant group with other listed buildings in Cheapside, Fore Street, and the Parade.
Local climate
County Hotel 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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