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Housing in Taunton leans large — close to a third of homes detached and nearly as many semi-detached — reaching from Rowbarton and Staplegrove round to Comeytrowe, Trull and Bishop's Hull, with the villages of Lydeard, Monkton, North Curry and North Petherton beyond. Houses of that size often carry furniture that smaller ones do not.
Taunton is the county town of Somerset, set in the fertile Vale of Taunton Deane. Its housing blends a handsome Georgian and Victorian centre with extensive new-build expansion around Comeytrowe and Staplegrove and rural cider-country villages, producing a broad market from period townhouses to modern family homes seeking quality flooring.
Engineered oak in warm and natural finishes suits Taunton’s Georgian and Victorian centre and character village homes, offering authentic timber appeal with underfloor-heating stability. For new-build estates around Comeytrowe and Staplegrove, wood-effect LVT and laminate deliver hard-wearing, waterproof practicality that busy family and rural households genuinely appreciate.
Authentic timber warmth for Taunton’s period townhouses and village homes.
Shop rangeA classic pattern that suits Georgian and Victorian reception rooms in the centre.
Shop rangeHard-wearing and practical for busy new-build family homes and kitchens.
Shop rangeThe accommodation figures available here describe the former Somerset West and Taunton district: 31.3% detached, 29.7% semi-detached, 22.6% terraced and only 15.6% flats. No tenure figures are quoted, because the ones on file cover a different area. TA1 and TA2 run through Taunton East, Taunton North, Taunton South, Rowbarton & Staplegrove, Bishop's Hull & Taunton West and Comeytrowe & Trull, all within the Somerset unitary authority. A stock more than four-fifths houses means whole-property work, and ground floors divide between suspended timber, whose underfloor ventilation has to stay clear, and solid slabs, whose damp-proof membrane has to be verified before any moisture-sensitive finish goes down. Stairs and landings often decide the material as much as the rooms do.
At the 2021 census, 15.6% of households in Somerset West and Taunton lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 83.6% in a house or bungalow — 22.6% of all households in a terraced house.
Accommodation type: ONS, Census 2021, Somerset West and TauntonThe same questions come up in every town we deliver to. These four references answer them once, with the source in each case.
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