45 and 46, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
45 and 46, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- dark-pavement-nightshade
- 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
- 45 and 46, Fore Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 228 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01462, -3.10173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 45 and 46 on Fore Street are early 18th-century buildings featuring a three-storey red brick front. They have a cornice band and a parapet, along with a string course and three windows. The second floor includes a small central window with a shouldered architrave surround, while the first floor has two Venetian windows and one round-headed window, with the lower parts of the latter cut off. The windows are sashes with glazing bars. There is a modern shop front at the ground level and four square braces at the second-floor level. These buildings are part of an important group that includes No 1A Billet Street, No 66 The County Hotel, the Brendon Bar, and No 8 East Street, which are all listed buildings in the area.
Local climate
45 and 46, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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