No 2 and Attached Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. House.

No 2 and Attached Walls

WRENN ID
gaunt-hearth-rowan
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
No 2 and Attached Walls, the Cross, Minehead
OS grid reference
SS 967 467
Coordinates
51.21075, -3.47956
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 2 is a house dating from the 17th century, featuring painted render over rubblestone or cob. It has a rubblestone lateral stack at the front, offset at the eaves level, with a brick shaft above. The gabled roof is thatched, with a brick stack on the right gable end. The house has a two-unit plan with a lateral stack serving the hall next to the entry, and there is a small 19th-century lean-to extension at the rear.

The building stands two storeys high and has a two-window range. There is a 19th-century three-light casement window above a four-light window to the left. To the right of the stack, there is a small fire-window, and adjacent to the stack is a small two-light casement window above a lean-to slate porch that leads to a set-back 17th-century moulded oak door-frame with an 18th-century door. The wall to the right of the door is blank, with a curved corner leading to the right return, which features 19th-century casement windows—two lights on the first floor and three lights on the ground floor.

Attached to the left-hand corner is a rubblestone wall approximately 2 meters high that curves forward and extends about 8 meters to the left. Additionally, a lower wall, approximately 1 meter high and 6 meters long, is attached to it, fronting the house. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

No 2 and Attached Walls 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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