Hodge Carpet Saleroom is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Carpet saleroom, shop.
Hodge Carpet Saleroom
- WRENN ID
- woven-glass-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Carpet saleroom, shop
- Address
- Hodge Carpet Saleroom, Paul Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 228 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01426, -3.10165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hodge Carpet Saleroom is a building located on Fore Street, likely constructed in the late 19th century. It stands two storeys tall on Fore Street and has one storey at the rear. The exterior is made of painted brick with banded quoins. It features a cornice and a parapet, with a pier adorned with volutes on the left side. The front has three sash windows without glazing bars. The side elevation facing Paul Street displays similar architectural details. A high painted brick parapet with large urns is attached to the left side of the building. The shop front on Fore Street is part of a continuous range of shop fronts extending down Paul Street. It has a dentilled cornice above a plain fascia, which is supported by pilasters and half-columns, with paired three-quarter columns in Paul Street. The shop glazing is modern. The 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 listed buildings in Cheapside, Fore Street, and the Parade.
Local climate
Hodge Carpet Saleroom 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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