Thimble Thatch and Attached Wall Willow Cottage and Attached Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. Cottages. 1 related planning application.

Thimble Thatch and Attached Wall Willow Cottage and Attached Wall

WRENN ID
winter-flint-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1952
Type
Cottages
Address
Thimble Thatch and Attached Wall Willow Cottage and Attached Wall, 19, Vicarage Road, Minehead, TA24 5RP
OS grid reference
SS 966 466
Coordinates
51.21007, -3.48128
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thimble Thatch and Willow Cottage are two cottages located on Vicarage Road in Minehead, dating from the 17th century. They feature painted render over cob or rubblestone and have a continuous thatched roof that is half-hipped to the left. Each cottage has lateral stacks, with No.19 on the left being L-shaped and lacking windows facing the street, while No.21 has a one-unit plan. Both cottages are single-storey with an attic and have a two-window range.

No.19 has a 20th-century door and a small leaded slit window, likely a fire window, positioned to the left of a rubblestone external stack that has a tall shaft offset below and above the eaves. It is noted that this cottage may have been reconstructed during restoration. No.21 features a 19th-century two-light casement window at eaves level above a 20th-century lean-to porch with a single slate roof and door. To the left of No.21 is a single-light window, and the lateral stack on the right is internal. The interior was not inspected.

Additionally, there is a low rubblestone wall attached to the rubblestone stack, which connects to No.23 and curves around to the left, fronting the gardens.

Local climate

Thimble Thatch and Attached Wall Willow Cottage and Attached Wall 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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