THE POST OFFICE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL

THE POST OFFICE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, BAILEY HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177257
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: THE POST OFFICE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address:: THE POST OFFICE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, BAILEY HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177257
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: THE POST OFFICE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE POST OFFICE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, BAILEY HILL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: THE POST OFFICE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, 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:: ST6407632400

Details

ST6432 6/43

CASTLE CARY CP BAILEY HILL (North side)

The Post Office, and front boundary wall

24.3.61

GV II

House, now Post Office. Dated 1767 in gable. Cary stone ashlar with Doulting dressings; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic; 5 bays, of which the centre bay projects slightly and has a pediment. Plinth, ashlar quoins, cornice, plain parapet with moulded coping; 12-pane sash windows in architraves; centre bay has a Venetian window to first floor, and below a 6 fielded panel door in shouldered architrave with pediment on console brackets. Interior adapted as post office and shop on ground floor, first floor not seen. Three metres south of building, with opening opposite door with steps up, and with returns to each end of building, a Cary stone wall on lias base, coursed rubble with plain coping, between one and 2 metres high enclosing paved forecourt: important in the setting of the house and in the streetscape of Bailey Hill.

Listing NGR: ST6407632400

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Legacy System number:: 261976
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.