Belle Vue and Attached Gatepiers and Wall to Left is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. House.

Belle Vue and Attached Gatepiers and Wall to Left

WRENN ID
peeling-spire-burdock
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
Belle Vue and Attached Gatepiers and Wall to Left, 1, Quay Street, Minehead
OS grid reference
SS 971 467
Coordinates
51.21086, -3.47405
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Belle Vue, also known as The Old Harbour House, is a house located on Quay Street in Minehead, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. The building has been much altered over time and features painted render over rubblestone, with a steeply-pitched concrete tile roof and a rendered external stack positioned off-set to the west side at the rear gable end. It has a two-unit plan that is oriented at a right angle to the street and stands two storeys high with an attic, displaying a two-window range. The front has a 20th-century door and windows, while an original cyma-moulded painted stone cornice can be seen on the east front, along with painted stone chamfered quoins.

A low thick wall attached to the north-east corner encloses a garden and courtyard. Approximately 2 meters from the house, there are substantial gatepiers with moulded cornices and ball finials. The wall gracefully sweeps up as it connects the house to the gatepiers and the outhouse of No. 11A to the east. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Belle Vue and Attached Gatepiers and 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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