Source/Archive record SEM8354 - Survey: Crossacres, Selworthy, Minehead

The building was subject to historic building recording. It is Grade II Listed with The Old Rectory as they once formed one dwelling. The two houses are two storey under pitched roofs and are the west and south wings of an L shaped building, built of local mixed Devonian rubble stone, obscured in places by painted render. The survey enhanced an original drawing made in 1933. The combined property was run as a hotel and a convalescent home in the mid 20th Century. Notable features in the interior include several chamfered beams and a chimney stack visible in the roofspace that bears features suggesting the roof level was formerly lower. Several of the internal doors are of six panel 18th Century style but hung on butt hinges. A historical note in 1897 recorded that when David Williams became rector of Selworthy in 1780 the buildings “were in a very ruinous condition and the west wing had to be pulled down nearly to the ground and reroofed,” with mention of “a central stone wall four feet thick running across the house for its whole height that caused much difficulty”. The rectory was sold in 1934 and re emerged as a country house hotel. It was subsequently divided into two dwellings in 1953. A model is held within the property that shows how it was laid out in the early to mid 19th Century. It was noted to be a valuable source of information about the house.