Triangle House, Triangle Stores and Mead, Newsagent

TRIANGLE HOUSE, THE TRIANGLE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1177832
Date first listed:
18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Triangle House, Triangle Stores and Mead, Newsagent
Statutory Address:
TRIANGLE HOUSE, THE TRIANGLE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1177832
Date first listed:
18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Triangle House, Triangle Stores and Mead, Newsagent
Statutory Address 1:
TRIANGLE HOUSE, THE TRIANGLE
Statutory Address 2:
TRIANGLE STORES AND MEAD, NEWSAGENT, THE TRIANGLE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TRIANGLE HOUSE, THE TRIANGLE
Statutory Address:
TRIANGLE STORES AND MEAD, NEWSAGENT, THE TRIANGLE

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:
ST6400232199

Details

ST6332
ST6432
5/117
6/117

CASTLE CARY CP
THE TRIANGLE (West side)

Triangle House, Triangle Stores and Mead, Newsagent

GV
II

Detached house with shops, all one build. Late C18/early C19. Cary stone rubble, facade rendered; plain clay tile roof
with bands of scallop tiles between stepped coped gables; brick chimney stack. Two storeys with attic, 5 bays. Plain
end pilasters, moulded eaves course; 4-pane sash windows in plain openings; to lower bay 4 a C20 shop front with 2
angled bay-display windows under continuous fascia, with central doorway; to bay 5 a single angled bay display window
under slim angled fascia to match; doorways to lower bays 2 and 5 with architraves and pedimented hoods on console
brackets, with later part-glazed doors in each. Interiors not seen. Appears in an 1860 print, with small-pane windowed
double shop front bay 4, and no shopfront to bay 5; pediment to bay 2 doorway only (McGarvie M;, Castle Cary: Avalon
Industries, 1980).


Listing NGR: ST6400232199

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
262050
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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