Warehouse on Quayside at Former Canal Basin, Now Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. A Circa 1836 Warehouse.

Warehouse on Quayside at Former Canal Basin, Now Laurel Cottage

WRENN ID
eastward-mullion-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Warehouse
Address
Warehouse on Quayside at Former Canal Basin, Now Laurel Cottage, Hambridge and Westport
OS grid reference
ST 384 198
Coordinates
50.97445, -2.87787
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a warehouse, now partly converted into a dwelling known as Laurel Cottage. It dates from around 1836 and is constructed of coursed and squared lias rubble with a hipped slate roof and a pedimented gable on the front. The structure is square in plan and faces directly onto the former canal basin. It has three storeys and three bays, featuring small segmental-headed casements set in reveals, with two on the left that have been altered. There are three segmental-headed door openings in the centre bay, arranged one above the other, with plank doors; the first-floor door retains its hoist mechanism. The interior has mostly been stripped of its original features.

Local climate

Warehouse on Quayside at Former Canal Basin, Now Laurel Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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