Ashfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
Ashfield House
- WRENN ID
- waning-gable-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ashfield House, 19, Mount Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 229 240
- Coordinates
- 51.01061, -3.09968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashfield House is a Grade II listed building located on the southwest side of Mount Street, facing Vivary Park. It is believed to have been modernised in 1794, although it externally appears to date from the early to mid-19th century, with some alterations. The house has two storeys and is finished in whitewashed roughcast. It features a hipped slate roof with projecting eaves supported by brackets, and the middle section of the roof extends over a projecting two-storey verandah.
There is one dormer with double wood casements, and the first floor has a variety of windows, including two large sashes with glazing bars on the left and right. French windows lead to the trellised verandah at the first floor level. The ground floor is covered by an overall lean-to roof with slates. The street front showcases an attractive round-headed doorway with an architrave surround and a vermiculated keystone, complemented by a traceried fanlight and a six-panel door.
Ashfield House is part of a group of listed buildings that includes the School, Unitarian Chapel, the Lawn, Mary Street House, the listed buildings in Vivary Park, Wilton House in Hammets Walk, and Nos 1 to 14 (consecutive) Upper High Street.
Local climate
Ashfield 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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