12, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1952. Building.
12, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- sheer-roof-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1952
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 12, Fore Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01414, -3.10263
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 Fore Street is an early 19th-century building that features a front added to an older timber-framed structure. It has two storeys and is finished in stucco. The building has a cornice with brackets and a parapet, topped by an old tiled roof that is hipped towards the street. On the first floor, there is a large 19th-century six-light window, with a four-light canted bay window in the center. Above this window, there is a dentilled cornice and carved brackets with pendants underneath. The ground floor has a 19th-century double shop front, with an entrance on the right leading into Pig Market Lane. This building is part of an important group that includes No. 1A Billet Street, No. 66 The County Hotel, the Brendon Bar, and No. 8 East Street, along with other listed buildings in Cheapside, Fore Street, and the Parade.
Local climate
12, Fore 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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