The Terrace and Attached Walls and Gatepiers is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. Terrace of houses. 5 related planning applications.
The Terrace and Attached Walls and Gatepiers
- WRENN ID
- tangled-lancet-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1952
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Address
- The Terrace and Attached Walls and Gatepiers, 1-5, Bircham Road, Minehead
- OS grid reference
- SS 977 451
- Coordinates
- 51.196, -3.46483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A terrace of five houses, built in the early 19th century, likely around the 1830s. The terrace sits on a raised site above the road, flanked to the left by Alcombe House and to the right by Alcombe Hall. The houses have painted render over a rubble stone core, with a partly crested slate roof and brick stacks dividing the party walls. They are arranged with double-depth plans and have rear wings. Each house is three storeys high and has a single-window range. The windows on the north side of numbers 1, 2, and 3 are tripartite sashes with 6/6 panes on the ground and first floors, and 3/6 panes on the second floor; the windows of numbers 4 and 5 have been replaced with 20th-century sash windows. Six-panel doors are located to the left of numbers 1, 3, and 5, and to the right of numbers 2 and 4. These doors are paired under a shared porch with glazed upper panels. There are three-storey service blocks to the rear, featuring hipped and gabled roofs. The interior has not been inspected. The site is fronted by a replacement rubble stone retaining wall. Two original rubble stone walls rise to connect with the terrace. The rubble stone gate piers are accentuated with brick quoins.
Local climate
The Terrace and Attached Walls and Gatepiers 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 — 16 transactions since 1995
- 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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