CASTLE CARY PRIMARY SCHOOL

CASTLE CARY PRIMARY SCHOOL, PARK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307353
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: CASTLE CARY PRIMARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: CASTLE CARY PRIMARY SCHOOL, PARK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307353
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: CASTLE CARY PRIMARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: CASTLE CARY PRIMARY SCHOOL, PARK STREET

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:: CASTLE CARY PRIMARY SCHOOL, PARK STREET

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:: ST6397932052

Details

ST6332 5/91

CASTLE CARY CP PARK STREET (East side)

Castle Cary Primary School

GV II

School. Dated 1840, extended 1876. Cary stone cut and squared, Doulting stone dressings; earlier section has hipped double Roman concrete tile roof, later part has plain clay tiled gabled roof; brick chimney stacks. Older section to north: 2 storeys, 5 bays with added side porches: below, 3-light stone mullioned windows under square labels, now with plain casements; centre window higher, with transome; string course divides off upper storey which is 2 bays wide, balanced between bays 2 and 4; matching 2-light windows, set under plain ashlar coped gable bedded on string course, with 1840 date plaque. Interior retains cast iron columns supporting upper storey, and timber encased stairs to - presumably - the masters' accommodation. The 1876 extension of lesser interest; single-storey, 7 bays; gables to bays 2, 4 and 6 and entrances to bays 3 and 5, the latter now blocked: 3-light chamfer mullioned windows without labels, with transomes bays 2 and 6, and with two windows without transomes bay 4; rafters exposed at eaves; 1876 date plaque to centre gable. Originally built as a National School. (McGarvie M, Castle Cary: Avalon Industries, 1980).

Listing NGR: ST6397932052

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Legacy System number:: 262023
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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McGarvie, M , Castle Cary Avalon Industries, (1980)

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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.