Gowrie, Little Court and Iona and Attached Outhouse and Walls to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1976. Houses. 4 related planning applications.

Gowrie, Little Court and Iona and Attached Outhouse and Walls to Rear

WRENN ID
idle-cupola-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1976
Type
Houses
Address
Gowrie, Little Court and Iona and Attached Outhouse and Walls to Rear, Bircham Road, Minehead, TA24 6BE
OS grid reference
SS 976 451
Coordinates
51.19669, -3.46669
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gowrie, Little Court, and Iona are three houses built around 1840, each featuring a forward-facing gable. The front of the houses is finished in painted render, while the rear is constructed from rubblestone and tile-hung on the upper stories. They have shallow-pitched slate roofs with brackets at the front and brick stacks located at the valleys and end slopes. The houses have a double-depth plan with late 19th-century additions at the rear. Their design is in an unusual Picturesque style, resembling gabled villas.

Each house is two stories tall with attics and has a symmetrical two-window arrangement. The first-floor windows are 8/8-pane sash windows, while the ground floor features 10/10-pane windows. There are various small windows in the attics, and the central house has two 20th-century windows on the first floor. The windows of Gowrie have been replaced with late 20th-century versions. Each house has a trellised porch with a pediment over a studded door. To the far left and right, there are small set-back painted rubblestone ranges with late 19th-century windows. The interiors have not been inspected.

Additionally, there is a rubblestone outhouse and high garden walls at the rear that enclose the back gardens.

Local climate

Gowrie, Little Court and Iona and Attached Outhouse and Walls to Rear sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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
  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • 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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