Beacon View Horner Tea Garden Reacombe the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. A C17 Farmhouse, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Beacon View Horner Tea Garden Reacombe the Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-bonework-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Beacon View Horner Tea Garden Reacombe the Cottage, Luccombe, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 897 454
- Coordinates
- 51.19731, -3.57856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beacon View, The Cottage, and Horner Tea Garden is a farmhouse and cottage that has been converted into a row of cottages and a tea house. It dates from the 17th century and was enlarged and reroofed in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed from red sandstone random rubble, with a rendered center section of four bays. It features triple Roman tiled roofs of varying pitches and has a large external stone stack at the right gable end, a lateral stack between the entrance to Beacon View and The Cottage, and another stone stack at the left gable end, situated between the second and third bays on the left.
The structure likely began as a three-cell and cross passage farmhouse, with a two-cell and cross passage cottage added to the west end. It is one and a half stories tall and has eight bays. The 19th-century windows include many-paned wood and metal casements, with two and three-light designs. The left side has three dormers that rise from below the eaves, while the center three dormers break through the eaves. A window to the right of the lateral stack is set below the eaves, and the end bay has a window that also rises from below the eaves. On the ground floor, there are segmental-headed windows flanking the entrance, with two windows to the left of the inserted entrance. To the right of the stack, there is a slate-roofed pentice porch built on random rubble walls, leading to a half-glazed door that opens to the original cross passage. The end bay window has a wooden lintel.
The interior of the tea rooms was observed, featuring a steeply chamfered beam with steps and run-out stops, along with a framed partition leading to the cross passage. The building forms a picturesque group and was formerly known as Floyds Tea Garden.
Local climate
Beacon View Horner Tea Garden Reacombe the Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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