The Poplars is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Poplars
- WRENN ID
- turning-cobble-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Poplars, 70, Bridgewater Road, Taunton, TA2 8BD
- OS grid reference
- ST 249 256
- Coordinates
- 51.02489, -3.07115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Poplars is an early 19th-century house located on the east side of Bridgewater Road in West Monkton. The house is roughcast throughout, featuring rusticated quoins and window surrounds. It has a slate roof with coped verges and roughcast brick stacks to the gable ends. The building follows a double pile plan.
The house is two storeys high and has three bays. The first floor has 16-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 24-pane sash windows. The central entrance has a pair of doors with a fanlight above, all within raised surrounds and key stones. Only the right return has a window, a 16-pane sash. Projecting parapets on the returns obscure the sloping roof at the rear.
Local climate
The Poplars 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 1997
- 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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