Wilton House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. House.
Wilton House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-bonework-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wilton House, Hammet's Walk, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 225 240
- Coordinates
- 51.011, -3.1047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wilton House is a substantial brick house dated 1705, located in its own grounds to the west of Vivary Park. The house is colourwashed and features an entrance front that is two storeys high, rising to three storeys in the centre, with swept parapets. It has a slate roof and a sundial at the first-floor level on the rear. The front has seven sash windows with glazing bars. The doorcase is adorned with Corinthian columns that support an entablature with a parapet containing a shield. The doorway is round-headed with imposts. There is a two-storey garden wing that has been much altered, and a large projecting modern bay on the garden side. Wilton House, along with an ornamental column and Nos 1 to 14 (consecutive) Upper High Street, the listed buildings in Vivary Park and Mount Street, the School, Unitarian Chapel, the Lawn, and Mary Street House in Mary Street, form a group.
Local climate
Wilton 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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