Bell Vue is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Bell Vue
- WRENN ID
- graven-sentry-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1952
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bell Vue, 2 and 3, Quay Street, Minehead, TA24 5UJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 971 467
- Coordinates
- 51.21085, -3.47419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These two cottages, named Belle Vue, date from the late 17th or early 18th century and are located on Quay Street, Minehead. They are built with painted render over rubble stone, and have slate and artificial slate roofs. A brick stack is situated on the right gable end, which also serves as the external stack for the adjacent property at No.1. There are two brick stacks on the party wall, one on the ridge and one on the front slope.
No.2 Belle Vue has a two-unit plan with a central passage. It has a two-window front, with C19 three- and four-light casement windows positioned under the eaves. These windows have three panes to each leaf. A four-light casement window is located on the ground floor to the right. The centrally positioned planked door, now grained, is sheltered by an 18th-century hood supported on moulded consoles. A small, rectangular C20 bay window with a two-light casement and pitched slate roof is positioned to the left. An 18th-century coved plaster cornice runs beneath the eaves. No.3 Belle Vue is a single-unit cottage with a one-window front, featuring a C20 door and windows.
The interior of No.2 includes planked doors and a cross-beam on the ground floor to the right.
Local climate
Bell Vue 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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