Beechfield House
BEECHFIELD HOUSE, UPPER HIGH STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056227
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Beechfield House
- Statutory Address:
- BEECHFIELD HOUSE, UPPER HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056227
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Beechfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEECHFIELD HOUSE, UPPER HIGH 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:
- BEECHFIELD HOUSE, UPPER HIGH 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 64294 32459
Details
CASTLE CARY CP UPPER HIGH STREET (North side) ST6432 6/118 Beechfield House (formerly listed as Villa Cary) 24.3.61 GV II
Detached house. Mid/late C18. Cary stone rubble, rendered facade with Doulting stone dressings; steep pitch hipped clay pantiled roof; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic; 5 bays, of which centre bay is wider and projects slightly. Plinth, rusticated quoins, eaves course, central pediment: 12-pane sash windows in architraves, architraves flat- headed but tops of windows segmental arched; large margined window upper bay 3, replacing a pair of composite windows; oeil-de-boeuf window in pediment; to lower bay 3 a 6-panel door with glazed toplights, in beaded surround, with pediment hood on console brackets. Sundry extensions to rear, mostly C19, forming link with, and absorbing, former detached coach house. Interior not seen, but it is known to have been gutted by fire in 1881. Owned by the Clarke family from c1760 and known then as The Villa, it was regularly visited by diarist Parson Woodforde and John Wesley, who often stayed there: it was purchased by John Boyd in 1864 to enable the further expansion of the Ansford Factory from the grounds of next-door Ochiltree House (qv). (McGarvie M, Castle Cary: Avalon Industries, 1980).
Listing NGR: ST6429432459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262051
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
McGarvie, M, Castle Cary Avalon Industries, (1980)
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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