Ochil Tree House
OCHIL TREE HOUSE, UPPER HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366388
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Ochil Tree House
- Statutory Address:
- OCHIL TREE HOUSE, UPPER HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366388
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ochil Tree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OCHIL TREE HOUSE, UPPER HIGH 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:
- OCHIL TREE HOUSE, UPPER HIGH 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 64334 32443
Details
CASTLE CARY CP UPPER HIGH STREET (North side) ST6432 6/119 Ochil Tree House (formerly listed as Ochiltree House) 24.3.61 GV II
House at end of row. Circa 1825, probably built by William Payne, carpenter. Finely jointed red brick, Flemish bond, Doulting stone dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Above, 16-pane sash windows, below 4-pane sashes, in plain openings with rubbed brick voussoired flat heads, central keystones; to lower bay 3 a 6-panel door with glazed toplights set in architrave, up 3 steps, under pediment hood; to lower bay 5 a wide elliptical arched throughway with plain ashlar surround; incised on arch and impost 'John Boyd and Co. Ltd. Estd 1867"; the entrance now divided, forming narrow through-corridor and then pair double boarded doors, with panels over. Interior adapted, now offices of Avalon Components Ltd, who modified house at rear in l979. From 1851 home of John Boyd, horsehair weaver, who established his business at Chapel Yard House (qv) in 1840; the first instalment of his Ansford factory was built in the grounds in 1851. The name of the house comes from Boyd's birthplace in Scotland. (McGarvie M;, Castle Cary: Avalon Industries, 1980).
Listing NGR: ST6433432443
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262052
- 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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