Coastguard Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Coastguard Cottages
- WRENN ID
- peeling-jade-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Coastguard Cottages, Quay Street, Minehead, TA24 5UH
- OS grid reference
- SS 971 466
- Coordinates
- 51.20972, -3.47411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a group of five coastguard cottages built in the mid to late 19th century. They are constructed of coursed red sandstone rubble with ashlar stone detailing, and have a continuous slate roof with brick stacks between each cottage. The cottages are arranged with double-depth plans and are built in the Tudor Gothic style. Each cottage is one-window wide. They have gabled fronts with a three-light casement window above, featuring stone mullions. The ground floor windows are larger and sit beneath a continuous string course. The two cottages at each end have single-storey canted bays with hipped roofs, and small lean-to additions containing doors; the central cottages have hood moulds and Tudor arches above planked doors, which are fitted with strap hinges. The interiors have not been inspected. The cottages are well-preserved and represent attractive examples of this type of building.
Local climate
Coastguard Cottages 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 — 4 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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