Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-lancet-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lilac Cottage, 1, the Holloway, Minehead, TA24 5PB
- OS grid reference
- SS 967 464
- Coordinates
- 51.20795, -3.47948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century that was restored in 1978. It features painted render over rubblestone and has a hipped thatched roof with a rebuilt limestone stack on the right side. The building has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys tall with a three-window range. The windows are from the 20th century, with those on the first floor to the right set in half dormers. The left range is set back and has steps leading up to a 20th-century door beneath a thatched porch. The interior has been altered, but it was noted that it has undergone changes. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Lilac Cottage 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 — 5 transactions since 1997
- 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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