Park Cottage
PARK COTTAGE, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056219
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Park Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PARK COTTAGE, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056219
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Park Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK COTTAGE, SOUTH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PARK COTTAGE, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Castle Cary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63799 31820
Details
CASTLE CARY CP SOUTH STREET (East side, off) ST6331 7/97 Park Cottage GV II Detached house. Early and late C19, but incorporating much C18 fabric. Cary stone cut and squared; hipped Welsh slate roof; ashlar chimney stacks. Main house of double roof plan, with principal elevation to east facing park; 2 storeys, 3 bays. Above, 2 and 3-light small-pane casement windows; below central glazed door in architrave, possibly C18, and to outer bays margined French windows in Regency style fluted surrounds, whole ground floor masked by late C19 timber and glass conservatory replacing earlier verandah of which the cast iron uprights survive. To south an earlier building, of same materials, but set lower, now garages and store and much altered; in corner formed by this projection a chamfered infill of c1810 with a leaded casement and a 'Y'-traceried leaded window at first floor level. Entrance now in West elevation, much altered and largely late C19 in character. Inside, 6-panel doors in C18 frames, and one chamfered crossbeam with stop and runout ends; fine early C18 timber fireplace surround, bomb scarred, said to have been removed from Lincoln's Inn; stairs and most other features of C19 dates.
Listing NGR: ST6379931820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262030
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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