Timber Frame of Two Bays of Almshouses in Grounds of the Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
Timber Frame of Two Bays of Almshouses in Grounds of the Castle
- WRENN ID
- cold-finial-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Timber Frame of Two Bays of Almshouses in Grounds of the Castle, Castle Green, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 226 246
- Coordinates
- 51.01579, -3.10439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a timber frame structure consisting of two bays of almshouses, dating from around 1500. It features a restored wattle-and-daub infilling and has a pitched tile roof with gabled ends. The two bays originally belonged to old almshouses located on St James' Street, which were demolished in 1897. The structure was re-erected in the former Castle moat in 1899 and then dismantled and re-erected again at its current location in 1992. The surviving timber framing accommodates two single-room dwellings, each with doors and windows on both the front and back walls. The eaves are boldly overhanging and framed on projecting brackets. The timber frame is believed to predate 1500. All the listed buildings on Castle Green form a group with Ina Cottage on Mill Lane.
Local climate
Timber Frame of Two Bays of Almshouses in Grounds of the Castle 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 — 1 application
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