Blake House

Blake House, located on Bampton Street in Minehead, consists of three houses built in the late 17th century to early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. The exterior features painted render over rubblestone and cob, topped with a half-hipped slate roof that has a brick stack on the right. The narrow two-storey rear right wing, known as Blake Cottage (No.12A), is constructed of cob with rubblestone at the rear gable end and has a pantile roof with a lateral stack on the right.

The layout is a three-phase plan: No.14 on the left is a 19th-century extension with an entrance to the right and a two-room plan; No.12 has a two-room plan with a central through-passage; and No.12A, located at the rear of No.12, also has a two-room plan with an entrance to the right of a room that features a front lateral stack. No.12A curves along Court Green and is two storeys high with a two-window range, including 19th and 20th-century windows and a door.

No.12, facing Bampton Street, is three storeys tall with a two-window range, showcasing ovolo-moulded mullions on the 17th-century four-light windows on the second floor, while the ground and first floors have 20th-century windows. No.14, to the left, is two storeys high with a two-window range, featuring a set-back entrance on the far right and late 19th or 20th-century three-light casement windows.

Inside No.12, the room on the right has an axial beam and is angled towards the rear right, where there is a former corner fireplace. The rear wall includes an early 18th-century semicircular niche with fretted shelves. The left room features an open fireplace with a timber lintel and a chamfered beam to the left of centre. Early 18th-century two-panelled doors lead to the passage, and there is some panelling below the windows, with space for shutters that have since been removed. No.14 has been altered since its listing on February 13, 1976.