Church Farm Cottages and Attached Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1976. Cottage. 12 related planning applications.
Church Farm Cottages and Attached Wall
- WRENN ID
- late-groin-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Church Farm Cottages and Attached Wall, 1 and 2, Church Road, Minehead, TA24 5JR
- OS grid reference
- SS 967 468
- Coordinates
- 51.21121, -3.48
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cottages at Church Farm, dating largely from the 17th century, were extended and altered in the 19th century. They are built of painted render over a rubble or cob base, with a plain tile roof, exposed rafter ends, and a brick-finished rear lateral stack. Originally, the cottage on the left likely had a two-unit plan, while the cottage on the right may have been a single-unit outbuilding, now with a single-storey rear wing attached to its right. The cottages are two storeys high with a four-window front. The left-hand block is slightly taller and deeper, while the far-left section steps back, displaying a small three-light casement window above a 20th-century window, which may have been an entrance. Other windows in that block are 20th-century two-light casements. The right-hand block also steps back slightly, and contains a 20th-century gabled porch supported by brackets. A tiny square window with a central vertical iron bar sits above the porch; a leaded 3-light casement window from the early 19th century is centrally located on the first floor, and a larger late 19th-century window is on the ground floor to the right. A rear lean-to was re-rendered and reroofed around 1994. A rear wing to No. 2 cottage has a late 20th-century roof light. Inside No. 1, a chamfered axial beam is visible, along with exposed principal rafters to a collar truss roof and a stone newel stair. A diagonal buttress on the south-west corner extends as a wall approximately 1 meter high for about 15 meters southwards.
Local climate
Church Farm Cottages and Attached Wall 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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