South Cary House
SOUTH CARY HOUSE, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366384
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- South Cary House
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH CARY HOUSE, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366384
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- South Cary House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH CARY HOUSE, SOUTH STREET
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:
- SOUTH CARY HOUSE, SOUTH 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:
- ST 63700 31715
Details
CASTLE CARY CP SOUTH STREET (East side) ST6331 7/101 South Cary House, and front boundary wall and railings 24.3.61 GV II
Detached house, now old people's home. C18 with early C19 extension. Cary stone near-ashlar with Doulting stone dressings; Welsh slate roofs, between stepped coped gables on main block, plain gable to extension; stone chimney stack. Two storeys with attic; 5 bays to original house with 3- bay extension. Main block has 12-pane sash windows in moulded architraves, with small flat-roofed dormer casement window over bay 3; to lower bay 3 a C20 door in semi-circular arched surround with radial glazed fanlight, with Doric flanking pilasters and open pediment hood on corbel brackets: extension has 16-pane sash windows, larger below, with no window lower bay 2. Interior not seen. Three metres from house a Cary stone wall with coping, 3 metres high; lower along length of house, and capped with spear- point cast-iron railings on one metre high wall, with matching gate opposite door: this contributes both to the setting of the house and to the streetscape.
Listing NGR: ST6370031715
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262034
- 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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