Taunton Station (South Block) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Station. 17 related planning applications.
Taunton Station (South Block)
- WRENN ID
- hollow-fireplace-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Station
- Address
- Taunton Station (South Block), Station Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 254
- Coordinates
- 51.02294, -3.103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Taunton Station (South Block) is a two-storey building constructed around 1845, when the railway was opened. It is made of white brick and features lower wings on either side. The building has a cornice and a parapet, topped with a hipped slate roof. There are three windows, with the end window bays projecting slightly. The windows are sashes, with a triple light in the center, set in painted moulded surrounds with glazing bars. The ground floor includes windows and a central doorway, both adorned with cornices on brackets. A canopy over the ground floor is supported by curved iron brackets with scrolled detail and has a frilled edge. To the left, there is a contemporary one-storey range that features a large round-headed archway with a keystone in the corner and a canopy above. Taunton Station (South Block) is part of a group that includes the former Great Western Hotel and the Wheel Tapper Public House.
Local climate
Taunton Station (South Block) 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 17 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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