Martins Shop, With House and Gates on West Corner
MARTINS SHOP, WITH HOUSE AND GATES ON WEST CORNER, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366365
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Martins Shop, With House and Gates on West Corner
- Statutory Address:
- MARTINS SHOP, WITH HOUSE AND GATES ON WEST CORNER, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366365
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Martins Shop, With House and Gates on West Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARTINS SHOP, WITH HOUSE AND GATES ON WEST CORNER, MARKET PLACE
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:
- MARTINS SHOP, WITH HOUSE AND GATES ON WEST CORNER, MARKET PLACE
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:
- ST 64128 32379
Details
CASTLE CARY CP MARKET PLACE (East side) ST6432 6/84 Martins shop, with house and gates on west corner (formerly listed as Martin's Stores next east of George Hotel) 24.3.61 GV II
House and shop at end of row. Mid C18, possibly by Nathaniel Ireson. Cary stone rubble, but brick facade in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings, now all colourwashed; asbestos cement slates between coped gables; brick chimney stacks with moulded stone caps. Two storeys, 5 bays. Plinth, small rusticated quoins, band course, cornice, plain coped parapet; 12-pane sash windows in architraves with quintuple keystones, paired to lower bay 5; early C20 shopfront of slight projection spanning between bays 1 and 3, with pair glazed doors in central recess, under deep fascia; between bays 3 and 4 a large 6-panel door, up 4 steps, set under radially glazed fanlight in semi-circular arched opening, in surround having fluted Doric pilasters with part entablature and open pediment hood. On south-west side elevation another architraved sash window, and also a former semi-circular arched doorway with what could be a C12 roll and label mould (c.f George Hotel, q.v, next door, which also has C12 fragments). Interior modified and much extended for shop. On western corner a pair of C19 wrot-iron gates, on square rod-posts to walls, and segmental arched overthrow; gate rails have necked spear-points, with sweeps to urn finials at hinged ends - gates covered with sheet metal on street side.
Listing NGR: ST6412832379
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262017
- 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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