The Wheel Tapper Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Wheel Tapper Public House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-jamb-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Wheel Tapper Public House, Station Road, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 253
- Coordinates
- 51.02259, -3.10326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wheel Tapper Public House is a two-storey building from the mid-19th century, featuring colourwashed walls and a hipped slate roof with deep eaves. It has three sash windows with glazing bars, including triple sashes on the ground floor, and an entrance located in the centre. There is a lower extension to the right of the main structure. This building is included in the register for its group value, as it forms a group with the Former Great Western Hotel and Taunton Station (south block).
Local climate
The Wheel Tapper Public House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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