54-55, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Shop.
54-55, High Street
- WRENN ID
- silver-facade-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1999
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 54-55, High Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 226 243
- Coordinates
- 51.01335, -3.10383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 54-55 High Street is a shop premises, now functioning as a wine bar, built in 1894. The building is constructed of brick and cast-iron with stone dressings, and the roof is concealed. It has a rectangular plan and features full-width showroom windows on each floor at the front.
The exterior consists of three storeys with a symmetrical three-bay front. Each floor is supported by brick end pilasters and two slender cast-iron columns, along with cast-iron beams that have cornices; the top beam includes a frieze of festoons. The ground floor shop window has been replaced, but the fascia above retains its cornice and swagged terminal brackets. The former showroom windows above are arranged in a 3:3:3 light configuration, with glazing bars on the top lights. The building is topped with a stone balustrade featuring truncated finials and a pedimental centerpiece that has a monogram relief in the tympanum, inscribed with "Established 1775 Erected 1894." These premises were built for Hatcher and Sons Ltd. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
54-55, 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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