Queen Camel Health Centre and Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Health centre.
Queen Camel Health Centre and Front Boundary Railings
- WRENN ID
- dark-chancel-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1986
- Type
- Health centre
- Address
- Queen Camel Health Centre and Front Boundary Railings, High Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 596 246
- Coordinates
- 51.01964, -2.57704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Queen Camel Health Centre is a house that has been converted into a health centre, originally built in the early 19th century with significant additions made to the rear in the 20th century. The building is constructed from local lias stone that has been cut and squared, topped with a Welsh slate roof that features stepped coped gables, gabletted and ball finials, and brick chimney stacks. The east elevation is two storeys high with five hips, and there is an added window between the upper bays one and two. The sash windows are set in slightly segmental keystoned arches and consist of 16 panels each. The original doorway in the lower bay three has been blocked and replaced with a matching window, but an ornate cast-iron open porch in a vaguely classical style remains, although it is now roofless. There is a considerable extension at the rear of the building, as well as a single-storey extension against the south gable. The interior has not been seen but is understood to have not been severely altered.
Two metres east of the house, there is a low wall made of Ham stone ashlar, topped with 19th-century cast iron railings that have fleurs-de-lys tops and stand about one metre high. These railings feature curved braces and a matching gate located opposite the porch near the south-east corner, along with short return stone walls that have swept copings. This wall and railings contribute to both the setting of the house and the overall streetscape.
Local climate
Queen Camel Health Centre and Front Boundary Railings 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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