Somerset House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. A Medieval House. 1 related planning application.
Somerset House
- WRENN ID
- rusted-ledge-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Somerset House, Middle Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 228 247
- Coordinates
- 51.0167, -3.10174
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Somerset House is a 17th-century building located on the corner of Middle Street and Whirligig Lane. It has two storeys and is constructed of stucco with Tudor Gothic detailing. The left side of the front façade projects forward, topped with a slate roof that features a gable on the left and eaves. A quatrefoil is set in the oculus of the gable. There is a sill band and angle buttresses at the ground floor on the left side. The building has a plinth and a large three-light window with mullions and transoms in the projecting section to the left, accompanied by subsidiary single lights on either side. To the right, there are three windows with two and three lights, although one window is blocked. The windows have hoodmoulds and casements with horizontal glazing bars. The entrance is located on the left and is flanked by single lancets with hoodmoulds. It features a flattened pointed arch with a rectangular hoodmould, carved spandrels, and double wooden doors. Somerset House is part of a group of listed buildings on the south side of Middle Street, which includes Nos 13 Canon Street.
Local climate
Somerset 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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