Old Clay Puddling House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1987. Clay puddling house.

Old Clay Puddling House

WRENN ID
tattered-cloister-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 October 1987
Type
Clay puddling house
Address
Old Clay Puddling House, Whitney Hill, Donyatt
OS grid reference
ST 323 138
Coordinates
50.91983, -2.96425
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Clay Puddling House is a 18th-century structure that served as a clay puddling house for a former pottery. It is built from local stone rubble and features a conical thatched roof. The building has a circular plan with a radius of about 2.5 metres, but the north side is straight, with hips at the angles. It includes small slit windows and a plain doorway on the south side. Inside, the roof has plain purlins and a crossbeam at head height, which is supported by a 20th-century prop. The pottery that once operated here no longer exists, and the building is now part of a farmyard.

Local climate

Old Clay Puddling House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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