Chapel Yard House
CHAPEL YARD HOUSE, CHAPEL YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056239
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Yard House
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL YARD HOUSE, CHAPEL YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056239
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Yard House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL YARD HOUSE, CHAPEL YARD
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:
- CHAPEL YARD HOUSE, CHAPEL YARD
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 63807 31899
Details
CASTLE CARY CP CHAPEL YARD (North side) ST6331 7/46 Chapel Yard House
GV II
Semi-detached house. Late C18, modified C20. Cary stone random rubble, with ashlar quoins and whole of first floor, front elevation; double Roman clay tile roof between stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays. Pairs of 12-pane sash windows in plain openings with voussoired flat heads; to centre bay an early C20 glazed door under timber lintol, with timber pedimented hood on shaped brackets. Interior not seen. John Boyd took up residence here c1835, and set up looms in this cottage for horse-hair weaving in 1837. The business expanded to the Ansford factory (qv) in 1851, and survives today as the last such weavers in the country. (McGarvie M, Castle Cary: Avalon Industries, 1980).
Listing NGR: ST6380731899
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261979
- 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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