Elgin Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1976. House. 2 related planning applications.
Elgin Tower
- WRENN ID
- patient-alcove-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elgin Tower, St Michael's Road, Minehead, TA24 5QL
- OS grid reference
- SS 969 468
- Coordinates
- 51.21131, -3.47681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elgin Tower is a house dated 1887, built in the Scottish Baronial style. It is constructed of snecked red sandstone ashlar with gabled slate roofs, brick stacks, and is situated in a prominent position overlooking Minehead. The asymmetrical design incorporates a complex plan. The house is three and four storeys high, with an irregular window pattern. A three-storey crow-stepped gable is on the left, complemented by a four-storey square tower to the right, featuring a taller stair turret and canon waterspouts, as well as castellated parapets with false machiolation. The entrance, reached by a staircase to the first floor, is distinguished by a large semicircular arch beneath a crow-stepped gable, which bears a datestone. Rainwater heads are also dated. A low circular bay is situated to the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Elgin Tower 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 — 7 transactions since 1997
- 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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