Alcombe House Hotel, Including Mulberry Cottage, and Attached Wall to Left is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. Hotel. 1 related planning application.

Alcombe House Hotel, Including Mulberry Cottage, and Attached Wall to Left

WRENN ID
eastward-porch-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1952
Type
Hotel
Address
Alcombe House Hotel, Including Mulberry Cottage, and Attached Wall to Left, Bircham Road, Minehead, TA24 6BG
OS grid reference
SS 977 451
Coordinates
51.19597, -3.46434
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Alcombe House Hotel, which includes Mulberry Cottage and an attached wall to the left, is a late 18th-century building located at the end of The Terrace in Alcombe. The structure is rendered over rubblestone and features a hipped slate roof with two brick stacks at the rear. It has a two-unit plan with a central stair hall and a 19th-century wing to the left. The building stands three storeys tall with an attic and basement, displaying a symmetrical three-window arrangement. The second floor has three 3/6-pane sash windows, while the other floors feature 6/6-pane sash windows. Large late 19th-century canted bay windows flank a classical-style doorcase, which is adorned with a broken pediment and an ornamented fanlight above a six-panel door with raised and fielded panels. The facade and bays are topped with a parapet.

The mid-19th-century two-storey wing at the rear left, now known as Mulberry Cottage, has a variety of window styles, including four tripartite sashes. Inside, the ground floor retains six-panel doors and architraves. An open well, open-string staircase leads to the attic, featuring stick balusters, fretted ends, a swept mahogany rail, and turned newels. The upper floors contain late 19th-century four-panel doors and some late 19th-century fireplaces. The basement is stone-flagged and includes steps leading to the 19th-century service wing. Additionally, there is a rubblestone wall approximately 4 meters high and 40 meters long attached to the rear left of the left wing.

Local climate

Alcombe House Hotel, Including Mulberry Cottage, and Attached Wall to Left 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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