Terrace with Piers, Lamps and Parapets in Front of the Municipal Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Terrace. 2 related planning applications.

Terrace with Piers, Lamps and Parapets in Front of the Municipal Buildings

WRENN ID
endless-rampart-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1975
Type
Terrace
Address
Terrace with Piers, Lamps and Parapets in Front of the Municipal Buildings, Corporation Street, Taunton
OS grid reference
ST 226 245
Coordinates
51.01472, -3.10436
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The terrace with piers, lamps, and parapets is located in front of the Municipal Buildings on Corporation Street. It features a rocky revetment wall with buttresses, which is divided by large piers that support elaborate bronze lamps with grotesque bases. An openwork stone parapet surrounds the paved terrace, which is accessed by two flights of stone steps. This structure likely dates from around 1902 and is an integral part of the Municipal Buildings. The listed buildings in Bath Place and Corporation Street, except for No 34 and the Dragon Book Shop and Wall, form a group.

Local climate

Terrace with Piers, Lamps and Parapets in Front of the Municipal Buildings 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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