Highfield House
Highfield House, High Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7AN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177505
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Highfield House
- Statutory Address:
- Highfield House, High Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7AN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177505
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Highfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Highfield House, High Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7AN
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:
- Highfield House, High Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7AN
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:
- ST6420532420
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/07/2020
ST6432
6/81
CASTLE CARY CP
HIGH STREET (South side)
Highfield House
(formerly listed as Northfield House Hotel, previously listed as Cary House)
24.3.61
GV
II
House, now residential home. C18, Cary stone roughly cut and squared Doulting stone dressings; Welsh slate roof between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic; five bays, of which the centre bay is an angled two-storey projecting bay. Lias stone plinth, plain corner pilasters, cornice, plain parapet with moulded coping; twelve-pane sash windows set in architraves to bays one, four and five, former windows to bay two now being blocked; centre projection all in ashlar, with 8+4+12+4+8-pane upper windows above, and below eight-pane sash windows on angle flanking a six-fielded-panel door which has a surround of Doric attached columns and full entablature with triglyphs and metopes under pediment hood. Interior not seen.
This building has special streetscape value, in particular the way it dominates the end of
Ansford Road.
Listing NGR: ST6420532420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262014
- 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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