Coastguard Cottages

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

MINEHEAD

SS9746 QUAY STREET 900-1/3/150 (South side) Coastguard Cottages

II

5 coastguard cottages. Mid/late C19. Coursed red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, continuous slate roof with brick stacks to party walls. Double-depth plans. Tudor Gothic style.

2 storeys; each cottage is one-window range. Each cottage has a forward-facing gable over a 3-light casement window with stone mullions; similar but larger windows to the ground floor under a continuous string course. The terminating cottages have single-storey canted bays with hipped roofs and doors in flanking lean-tos; the central cottages have hood moulds and Tudor arches over planked doors with strap hinges. INTERIORS not inspected. Complete and attractive examples of their type.

Listing NGR: SS9712646646

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1662 IOE Records taken by R M Rayner; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr R.M Rayner. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project