Wales House with Front Boundary Railings and East Side Wallings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Wales House with Front Boundary Railings and East Side Wallings
- WRENN ID
- brooding-beam-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wales House with Front Boundary Railings and East Side Wallings, Church Path, Queen Camel, BA22 7PA
- OS grid reference
- ST 586 247
- Coordinates
- 51.0204, -2.59041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a detached house, dating from the 17th century with significant alterations in the 19th century. It is constructed of local lias stone, of several periods on the south front, with a Welsh slate roof featuring stepped coped gables. The house has brick chimney stacks. The building is arranged in an L-shape with a double roof plan, and stands two storeys high, five bays wide. Most windows are 2-light horizontal bar casement windows set within segmental arched openings with voussoirs. Later insertions are visible in bays 3, 4, and 5. French windows are present in the lower bays 3 and 5, while bay 1 has a 2-light mullioned window with a beaded surround, and glazed lead. The lower bay 4 features a 19th-century door set within an 18th-century architrave and is accessed via an open Tuscan portico with a plain recess and square label. The interior of the house has not been inspected.
Running from the north-east corner back towards Wales Bridge is a 3-metre-high stone wall with piers spaced approximately 4 metres apart and a plain coping. A lower wall, approximately 1.75 metres high, runs from the south-east corner, rising at each end. Attached to this wall on the south side is a low, semi-circular stone wall with Ham stone coping and early 19th-century wrought iron railings approximately 1.5 metres high, featuring necked and pointed tops. A pair of gate piers, about 2 metres high with moulded plinths, rusticated ashlar shafts and bell-hip tops, stands in the centre opposite the portico, flanked by gates with curved tops. These features contribute to the setting of the house. The house was owned by the Crowbrow family in 1795 and later by the Mildmay family by 1842.
Local climate
Wales House with Front Boundary Railings and East Side Wallings receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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