Description

CASTLE CARY CP CHAPEL YARD (North side)
ST6331
7/46 Chapel Yard House

GV II

Semi-detached house. Late C18, modified C20. Cary stone random rubble, with ashlar quoins and whole of first floor,
front elevation; double Roman clay tile roof between stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3
bays. Pairs of 12-pane sash windows in plain openings with voussoired flat heads; to centre bay an early C20 glazed
door under timber lintol, with timber pedimented hood on shaped brackets. Interior not seen. John Boyd took up
residence here c1835, and set up looms in this cottage for horse-hair weaving in 1837. The business expanded to the
Ansford factory (qv) in 1851, and survives today as the last such weavers in the country. (McGarvie M, Castle Cary:
Avalon Industries, 1980).

Listing NGR: ST6380731899

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26307883

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)