Somerset and Wilts Savings Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Bank.
Somerset and Wilts Savings Bank
- WRENN ID
- fallen-bronze-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Somerset and Wilts Savings Bank, 1, Upper High Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 241
- Coordinates
- 51.0119, -3.10321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Somerset and Wilts Savings Bank is an early local bank established in 1817, although the current building is likely from a later date. It features a three-storey main front made of stucco, with a rusticated ground floor beneath a stringcourse. A deep cornice runs along the top, with a raised parapet in the center designed to hold a clock. The façade includes three windows with architrave surrounds and cornices above the first-floor windows, and the windows are sashes with glazing bars. The building has subsidiary facades that face east and south towards Vivary Park. It is a dignified structure located at a significant position at the end of High Street, next to the entrance gates of Vivary Park.
The bank is part of a group of listed buildings that includes Nos 1 to 14 on Upper High Street, the listed buildings in Vivary Park, Mount Street, the School, Unitarian Chapel, The Lawn, Mary Street House, Wilton House, and an ornamental column in Hammets Walk.
Local climate
Somerset and Wilts Savings Bank 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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