5, St James Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Commercial building.
5, St James Street
- WRENN ID
- distant-steel-wren
- 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, St James Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 247
- Coordinates
- 51.01726, -3.10298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 5 on St James Street is an early to mid-19th century building. It has two storeys and is constructed of painted brick with an old tiled roof and eaves. The façade features three windows, although the centre window on the first floor is blocked. The ground floor includes a small shop window to the right, and there is a central round-headed door topped with a semi-circular fanlight, although the door itself is modern. This building, along with Nos 5 to 8 and 8A, forms a group of structures that are of local interest, together with Nos 2A, 3, and 4.
Local climate
5, St James Street 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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