5, Upper High Street and wall to west is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. A C19 House.
5, Upper High Street and wall to west
- WRENN ID
- north-lime-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5, Upper High Street and wall to west, Taunton, TA1 3PX
- OS grid reference
- ST 226 241
- Coordinates
- 51.01175, -3.104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 5, Upper High Street is a long stucco house dating from the early 19th century, facing Vivary Park. It has two storeys plus a basement and features a slate roof. The façade includes plain pilasters and a gabled extension that projects forward at the center. There are five sash windows with glazing bars, some of which have rectangular hoodmoulds. To the west, there is a two-storey extension with single lights flanked by niches. A round-headed doorway and a wall with pilasters extend west along the street to connect with No 6.
This building is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 14 Upper High Street, the listed buildings in Vivary Park, Mount Street, the School, Unitarian Chapel, The Lawn, Mary Street House in Mary Street, and Wilton House along with an ornamental column in Hammets Walk.
Local climate
5, Upper High Street and wall to west 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
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