Lantern Cottage and Former Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Lantern Cottage and Former Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- narrow-landing-candle
- 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
- Lantern Cottage and Former Boundary Wall, High Street, Queen Camel, BA22 7NF
- OS grid reference
- ST 596 246
- Coordinates
- 51.01969, -2.57659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lantern Cottage is probably an 18th-century detached cottage located on the east side of High Street in Queen Camel. It is constructed of roughly cut and squared local lias stone with a thatched roof and brick chimney stacks. The cottage is L-shaped, with the rear elevation set at a lower level. It has two storeys and two bays. It features small-pane casement windows with two lights, some set within small thatched square bays. A projecting stone and thatched porch with a part-glazed door sits between the bays. The interior of the cottage has not been inspected.
In front of the house, approximately five metres away, stands a boundary wall approximately 600mm high, built of Keinton stone pianks. A 20th-century metal gate with wooden posts is positioned in the centre of the wall. This wall is a rare survival in the village, contributing to the setting of the house and the streetscape.
Local climate
Lantern Cottage and Former Boundary Wall 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 — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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