26, 28 and 30, The Parks is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. Terrace houses. 5 related planning applications.
26, 28 and 30, The Parks
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1952
- Type
- Terrace houses
- Address
- 26, 28 and 30, The Parks, Minehead, TA24 8BT
- OS grid reference
- SS 964 462
- Coordinates
- 51.20606, -3.48374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26, 28, and 30 The Parks is a terrace of three houses built around 1830. The exterior features stucco over rubble or brick, with stone coping on a gabled slate roof and ashlar and rendered stacks at the gable ends and party walls. Each house has a double-depth plan with a central stair hall and is two storeys tall, with a semi-basement. They each have a two-window range, with No. 28 featuring a central porch and outer canted bays. The design is completed by canted bay windows that include 5-pane casements with horizontal glazing bars, surrounded by scrolled cast-iron balcony railings. The first-floor French windows open onto the balconies, while the other windows are 6/6-pane sash windows, with 2- and 3-light casements in the basements. Steps with railings lead up to the doorways, with Nos. 26 and 30 having cast-iron railings, and No. 28 featuring a Tuscan porch. The doors are panelled with overlights. The eaves are bracketed, and there are 20th-century flat-roofed dormers with slate-hung and boarded cheeks. A mid-20th-century one-storey extension is located to the right, and No. 30 has a 20th-century conservatory on the left side. This terrace shares a similar design with Nos. 20, 22, and 24, although it is less altered. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
26, 28 and 30, The Parks 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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