Roughmoor House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Roughmoor House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-transept-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Roughmoor House, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 207 252
- Coordinates
- 51.02132, -3.13103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roughmoor House is an early 19th-century building that has been converted into offices. It features a rendered exterior and a double span hipped slate roof, which is covered with bitumen. The house has decorative brackets and brick stacks on both the left and right sides. The layout consists of a double pile design with two storeys and three bays. On the first floor, there are 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 16-pane sash windows set in segmental headed recesses. These flank a 19th-century wooden glazed porch that has a segmental headed opening, with inner double doors that are panelled and topped with a fanlight. To the left, there is a single storey hipped one bay pavilion, and on the right, there is a canted bay with a hipped lead roof, which includes a 12-pane sash window and a 16-pane sash window above. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Roughmoor House 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 — 2 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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