Falkland Cottae is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1976. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Falkland Cottae
- WRENN ID
- sunken-lintel-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Falkland Cottae, 12, Middle Street, Minehead, TA24 5JH
- OS grid reference
- SS 966 465
- Coordinates
- 51.20867, -3.48068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Falkland Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the north side of Middle Street in Minehead. It is constructed from colourwashed cob with rubblestone and features a pantile lean-to on the right. The cottage has a steeply-pitched slate roof that is half-hipped to the left, with an internal lateral stack on the left and a brick stack at the right gable end. The building has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high, with a one-window range. The windows are 19th and 20th-century two and three-light casement types, and there are 20th-century entrance doors at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Falkland Cottae 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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