Cary Fitzpaine

CARY FITZPAINE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1056761
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:
Cary Fitzpaine
Statutory Address:
CARY FITZPAINE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1056761
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:
Cary Fitzpaine
Statutory Address 1:
CARY FITZPAINE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CARY FITZPAINE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
The Charltons
National Grid Reference:
ST 54851 27110

Details

ST52NW CHARLTON MACKRELL CP CARY FITZPAINE 5/21 Cary Fitzpaine 17.4.59

GV II

Farmhouse. Rebuilt c1830, but with C17 fragments. Local lias stone cut and squared; hipped Welsh slate roof; ashlar stone chimney stacks. Villa style. 2 storeys, 3 bays x 3 bays, with extensions westwards. east elevation has 16-pane sash windows to upper outer bays, with semi-circular arched widows between; below French doors to outer bays, with central 6 flush panel door in heavy frame; stone lintols with false keystone to all openings, with curved dressing and true keystone to upper centre window; across whole of lower elevation hipped glass roofed verandah carried on cast iron openwork columns of a Regency pattern. south side has 6-pane sash windows, and north side has two upper horizontal sliding sashes. Interior has simple Regency style staircase, door etc, little altered: extension to rear. The westwards extension has detail similar to the 1789 barns (qv), but at west end are two hollow chamfered mullioned windows, possibly C17. Cary Fitzpaine was an ancient manor of some consequence with its own chapel: it was probably rebuilt by the Revd. Henry Shute, who owned it from 1824 to 1841. (Victoria County History, Volume III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST5485127110

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Legacy System number:
262826
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)

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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