Cumnock Terrace Including Front Garden Walls, Railings, Gates and Piers
CUMNOCK TERRACE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS, RAILINGS, GATES AND PIERS, 1-12, CUMNOCK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390885
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Cumnock Terrace Including Front Garden Walls, Railings, Gates and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- CUMNOCK TERRACE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS, RAILINGS, GATES AND PIERS, 1-12, CUMNOCK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390885
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-2004
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Cumnock Terrace Including Front Garden Walls, Railings, Gates and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- CUMNOCK TERRACE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS, RAILINGS, GATES AND PIERS, 1-12, CUMNOCK ROAD
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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:
- CUMNOCK TERRACE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS, RAILINGS, GATES AND PIERS, 1-12, CUMNOCK ROAD
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:
- ST6436132670
Details
1606/0/10005
CASTLE CARY
CUMNOCK ROAD
1-12 Cumnock Terrace, including front garden area walls, railings, gates and piers.
13-APR-04
II
Terrace of twelve houses. 1877; by John Boyd for his workers. Coursed Ham stone with freestone dressings. Clay plain tile roof with crested ridge tiles, finials and stone coped gables. Large red brick axial stacks.
PLAN: Terrace of twelve houses, larger end houses project; lower level at rear with small service wings and walls around small yards.
Victorian Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and basements. Symmetrical 2:8:2 bay north east front. The end two bays project and each has an outer full-height canted bay with splayed sides with recessed panels with shields bearing monogram JB and date 1877 and inscription Cumnock Terrace, large carved dragon corbel above supporting large gable; the inner bay has large but shallow timber-framed oriel with hipped roof; lean-to porches in the inner angles and hipped paired canopies to the other doorways, mostly with plank doors complete with ornate wrought-iron hinges; 4-pane sash windows, some replaced, in chamfered stone mullion windows, paired at centre. Rear south west, twin gables to left and right, lower ground level with small service wings, walls around small yards and little hipped roof wings under tall, narrow stair windows.
In front of the terrace stone garden area walls with elaborate cast-iron railings and gates and with stone gate-piers at either end to rear service road.
INTERIOR not inspected but No.6 is recorded as having original staircase with square newels with turned finials and at least one cast-iron chimneypiece.
Cumnock Terrace was built in 1877 by John Boyd for workers at his horse hair factory in Castle Cary. His son, John Stuart Boyd, and his accountant, William Macmillan, are said to have occupied the two larger end houses.
SOURCES: McGarvie, M. Castle Cary; 1980; p.33.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490828
- 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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