Gothic Villa, and Front Boundary Wall, Railings and Gates
GOTHIC VILLA, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES, BAILEY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056238
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic Villa, and Front Boundary Wall, Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- GOTHIC VILLA, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES, BAILEY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056238
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic Villa, and Front Boundary Wall, Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOTHIC VILLA, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES, BAILEY HILL
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:
- GOTHIC VILLA, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES, BAILEY HILL
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:
- ST6403532388
Details
ST6432
6/45
CASTLE CARY CP
BAILEY HILL (West side)
Gothic Villa, and front boundary wall, railings and gates
GV
II
Town house, now flats. Mid C19. Cary stone cut and squared with bands and dressings of grey lias and Doulting stone;
double Roman clay tile roofs with overhung gables having elaborately ornamental bargeboards; brick chimney stacks. Two
storeys; 4 bays, of which bay 1 is wider, slightly projecting and gabled. Lias stone plinth and band course; 4-pane
sash windows with margins in toothed lias stone surrounds with Doulting keystoned lintols; gabled light to bay 1; to
left of this bay a part glazed door in matching openings, with a similar door to lower bay 2. Interiors not seen. To
east of house, and connected to north-east corner, a low stone wall with rounded top course on which are set cast-iron
railings about one metre high with fleur-de-lys/ spearhead points, with matching gates opposite both doorways, flanked
by ashlar piers with heavily detailed pyramidal caps. In a prominent position at the highest point of Bailey Hill.
Listing NGR: ST6403532388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261978
- 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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