Harbour Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Harbour Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gilded-step-acorn
- 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
- Harbour Cottage, 55, Quay Street, Minehead, TA24 5UJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 970 470
- Coordinates
- 51.2132, -3.47497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harbour Cottage is a late 18th-century house located on the west side of Quay Street in Minehead. It is set well back from the street and constructed with painted render over rubble stone, featuring a plain tile roof and a stack at the rear. The house follows a 2-unit plan, including a rear wing. It comprises three storeys and has a two-window front. The windows are 20th-century casements, and there is a door to the left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Harbour Cottage 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 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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