Minehead is home to a wealth of history - and its buildings reflect that history to this day.

On the market right now is a selection of period homes that date back more than a century, from former hospitals to smuggling hotspots.

We’ve rounded up some of the properties for sale in the area with long histories.

This semi-detached home spans three storeys and dates back to the early 1900s, having been used by a local charitable academy for some years as accommodation.

Inside, the property is divided into nine bedsits with an office/former shop, or could be suitable as a house of multiple occupation subject to licensing.

The house, which is described as “substantial”, is close to the town centre and comes with a courtyard garden and a parking area.

This Grade II listed property from 1850 sits on the end of a terrace and is currently being run as a self-catering hostel.

The building is made up of six bedrooms for guests and a two-bedroom owners’ accommodation on the ground floor.

There is also a courtyard garden and off-road parking to the rear of the property, and a small lawned garden to the front.

This refurbished house is described as a “quintessential country home”, dating back to the early 18th century and featuring a hipped thatched porch, casement windows and a six-panel door.

Described as a “true hidden gem”, the main house is made up of a reception hall with a cloakroom, a dining hall with a “secret drinks cabinet”, a living room, a kitchen/breakfast room, and a boot room on the first floor, with four bedrooms and a family bathroom upstairs.

The property also has an annexe, comprising a kitchen/dining room, a sitting room, a double bedroom and an en-suite bathroom.

Outside, there are walled gardens to the rear, with terraces, sitting areas and an array of trees, as well as a private gated driveway to the front.

This link-detached house close to the sea-front is of “great character and charm”, colourfully named Smuggler’s Cottage and dating back to the 1600s.

Flanked by the River Avill and the sea-front, it would have been the ideal spot for smugglers bringing in goods from overseas.

The property, including an annexe, contains a sitting room, a kitchen/dining room, another kitchen, a utility room, a cloakroom, a study and a bedroom on the ground floor, and a family bathroom and four bedrooms on the first floor, one with an en-suite bathroom and a dressing area.

Externally, there is a garage, a detached studio/home office and treatment room, a lawned garden, a private annexe garden, a timber decked terrace and a vegetable garden.

This family home between Minehead and Porlock was built in the early 1900s and was once used as an isolation hospital.

Inside, there is a dining room with a vaulted ceiling, an archway leading to the kitchen/breakfast room, a sitting room with a feature fireplace, a utility room, a snug with a door to the garden, and a cloakroom on the ground floor.

Also on the ground floor are two bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and a study, while upstairs there are two further bedrooms, also with en-suites and both with balconies overlooking Exmoor.

Outside, there is a garage, a workshop, a log store and a garden store, as well as gardens spanning 0.75 acres, a greenhouse, a vegetable garden, a summerhouse and a patio.