The Old Custom House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Custom House
- WRENN ID
- first-plinth-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Custom House, 31a and 33, Quay Street, Minehead, TA24 5UL
- OS grid reference
- SS 971 469
- Coordinates
- 51.21208, -3.47396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Custom House is an early to mid-18th century house located on Quay Street in Minehead. It is constructed of painted render over rubble stone, with a thatched roof and a brick stack to the right, and a shallow-pitched slate roof to the right wing. The building originally comprised two units, with an early 19th century wing added to the right. The left-hand part of the house is numbered 31A. The main section is two storeys high and features a symmetrical two-window front. The right wing is also two storeys high, with a one-window front. The windows are 20th-century three-light casements, with those to the second floor set in half dormers. A six-panelled door with an iron knocker under a hood supported by shaped brackets sits in the centre, and a service doorway is located to the far left. The right wing is distinguished by a long, chamfered quoin on its right side and a 19th-century door to the left. The interior of the building was not inspected.
Local climate
The Old Custom House 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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