Cancot, May Cottage and Rosamunde
CANCOT, ANSFORD HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307619
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Cancot, May Cottage and Rosamunde
- Statutory Address:
- CANCOT, ANSFORD HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307619
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cancot, May Cottage and Rosamunde
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANCOT, ANSFORD HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- MAY COTTAGE, ANSFORD HILL
- Statutory Address 3:
- ROSAMUNDE, ANSFORD HILL
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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.
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:
- CANCOT, ANSFORD HILL
- Statutory Address:
- MAY COTTAGE, ANSFORD HILL
- Statutory Address:
- ROSAMUNDE, ANSFORD HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ansford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 64012 33121
Details
ANSFORD CP ANSFORD HILL (North side) ST63SW 1/11 Cancot, May Cottage and Rosamunde (previously listed as Leancot, Cottage between Leancot and Rossmund Cottage, and Rossmund Cottage) 3.10.73 GV II
Row of Cottages, formerly for flaxspinners. Late C18. Cary stone rubble, roughly coursed; double Roman clay tile roof, coped west gable, abutment at east end; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys. Cancot of 3 bays; 2-light small-pane casement windows, except lower bay 3, which has a steel casement, all under timber lintols; to lower bay 2 a part glazed door with timber and corrugated iron roof: a plaque on this house states that it was a memorial gift to Castle Cary Museum in 1976. May Cottage of 2 bays; above a 2-light small-pane casement in bay 1, to bay 2 at both levels 2-light horizontal bar casements; left of bay 1 a boarded door in heavy frame. Rosamunde has 3 bays; 3-light horizontal bar casement windows, except for upper bay 1, which has a 2-light small-pane casement, and upper bay 2, which is blank; to lower bay 1 a lean-to porch with boarded door. Interiors not seen. Charles Donne started a twine spinning and sailcloth business in these cottages in 1797, relocating to bigger premises in Castle Cary in 1818. Attached to east gable is Wychwood Cottage (qv) with which these properties form a good group. (M McGarvie; Castle Cary: Avalon Industries, 1980).
Listing NGR: ST6401733119
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261944
- 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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