Sherford House is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. A 17th century House.
Sherford House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cloister-peregrine
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- 17th century
- Address
- Sherford House, Sherford Road, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 226 233
- Coordinates
- 51.00402, -3.10348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sherford House is a 17th-century brick and roughcast house, dated 1679, located set back from a bend in St James Street. The building has been considerably altered over time. It features a central porch wing with a gable and bargeboards, along with carved spandrels and an old door. There are new wings added to the front and side of the house, with mostly pantile roofs, although the right side has old tiles. The windows are a mix of casement types. Inside, the ceilings on both the ground and first floors are decorated with Tudor roses and other isolated ornaments. A notable feature in the first-floor room is a rich plaster overmantel adorned with Jacobean ornament and the initials PLM along with the date 1679.
Local climate
Sherford House 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 — 4 transactions since 2009
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