38, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1973. A C19 House. 3 related planning applications.
38, High Street
- WRENN ID
- gentle-wicket-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- 38, High Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 226 242
- Coordinates
- 51.01258, -3.10359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
38 High Street is an early 19th-century building featuring a three-storey stucco front and a band above the first floor. The roof is not visible. The façade has three windows with architrave surrounds, although two of these are blocked on the upper floor. The windows are sashes without glazing bars. The ground floor has modern shop fronts. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 37 to 40.
Local climate
38, High 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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