The Old Presbytery, Corner Cottage and Rear Walls to the Old Presbytery is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1976. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Presbytery, Corner Cottage and Rear Walls to the Old Presbytery
- WRENN ID
- kindled-spandrel-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Presbytery, Corner Cottage and Rear Walls to the Old Presbytery, Church Street, Minehead, TA24 6BL
- OS grid reference
- SS 976 451
- Coordinates
- 51.19616, -3.4664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Presbytery and Corner Cottage are likely the result of an older house, dating to the 18th century with alterations in the early 19th century. The construction uses painted render over rubble stone, with a crested plain tile roof, exposed rafter ends, a hipped design, a small gable, and brick stacks to the gable ends, left front slope, and right eaves. The building has a double-depth plan.
Corner Cottage occupies the right-hand section and includes entrances to both the front and right return. It has 20th-century two-light casement windows. The Presbytery section presents a virtually symmetrical three-window facade to Church Street, featuring a tiled lean-to porch in the center. It has two-light casement windows on the first floor, a 19th-century two-light casement window to the left of the front door, and a 20th-century window to the right.
The rear elevation is three stories high, with three 3/6-pane sash windows on the second floor, 6/6-pane sashes on the first floor, and a 19th-century tall 3-light window on the ground floor, featuring four vertical panes to each leaf, to the right.
The interior reveals a through passage and a studded wall to the left (now covered), suggesting a former three-unit plan. The 19th-century three-light window on the ground floor has panelled shutters. A staircase from the 18th century remains, with fretted ends and traces of former stick balusters.
Attached rubblestone walls, approximately 40 meters long, border the tapered rear garden and terminate at a rubblestone outhouse measuring approximately 3 meters by 3.5 meters.
Local climate
The Old Presbytery, Corner Cottage and Rear Walls to the Old Presbytery 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 2003
- 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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