Clouds End Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Cottage.
Clouds End Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-tower-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Clouds End Cottage, Englands Lane, Queen Camel
- OS grid reference
- ST 593 248
- Coordinates
- 51.0217, -2.581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clouds End Cottage is a detached cottage dating from around 1600. It is built from local lias stone that is roughly cut and squared, and features a thatch roof with plain gables and brick end chimney stacks. The cottage has two storeys and three bays, with three light horizontal bar casement windows. The lower bay two has an early 20th-century part-glazed door under a timber lintel, which does not have a hood. There is a small matching projection at the rear.
Although the interior has not been seen, it is reported to contain fireplaces in both gable ends, with one end featuring the remains of an oven and the other a bacon curing chamber. There is also an additional contemporary fireplace at the first floor level. The interior includes various chamfered beams with stop and run-outs, a spiral staircase, and a plank and muntin partition, as well as the timber framework of a flue.
There is a tradition that this cottage served as a resting house for the duty monk from Muchelney Abbey, who would have come over to take services in the Church of St Barnabas. If this is the case, the core of the building could date back to before 1530.
Local climate
Clouds End Cottage 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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