Belle Vue Villa and Ferndale Villa, With Front Boundary Walls and Railings
BELLE VUE VILLA, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056222
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Belle Vue Villa and Ferndale Villa, With Front Boundary Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- BELLE VUE VILLA, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056222
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Belle Vue Villa and Ferndale Villa, With Front Boundary Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELLE VUE VILLA, SOUTH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- FERNDALE VILLA, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS, 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:
- BELLE VUE VILLA, SOUTH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FERNDALE VILLA, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS, 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:
- ST6368431686
Details
ST6331
7/102
CASTLE CARY CP
SOUTH STREET (East side)
Belle Vue Villa and Ferndale Villa, with front boundary walls and railings
GV
II
Pair cottages. A C19 conversion of C17 farmhouse. Cary stone cut and squared, Doulting
ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with plain gables and ornamental clay tile ridge;
brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays each cottage. Ovolo-mould
windows with slim lights, unleaded, some having iron opening lights; above, 3, 2 and
3-light, lower windows to outer-bays of 4-lights with central king mullions, all having
square labels; to centre bay of each house a 6-panelled door, with glazed panels, set in
plain chamfered openings under moulded flat stone hoods on shaped stone corbel brackets
- the right-hand door, to Ferndale Villa, appears to be C17 and the other a careful copy.
In south gable a datestone of 1635; to rear are brick surround semi-circular arched
windows. Interiors totally late C19, Three metres from houses low Cary stone walls with
angled coping capped with 450mm high railings of horizontal square rods set diagonally
on twist uprights; square gate pillars with stepped pyramid tops, with house names
inscribed on friezes; between them wrot iron gates with spearpoints; end piers to wall
have ball finials. Farmhouse apparently gutted by fire in late C19; carefully converted
into two villas, and apparently not altered since.
Listing NGR: ST6368431686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262035
- 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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