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Latitude: 51.0898 / 51°5'23"N
Longitude: -2.5143 / 2°30'51"W
OS Eastings: 364076
OS Northings: 132400
OS Grid: ST640324
Mapcode National: GBR MV.CLSD
Mapcode Global: FRA 56M7.N97
Plus Code: 9C3V3FQP+W7
Entry Name: The Post Office, and Front Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 24 March 1961
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1177257
English Heritage Legacy ID: 261976
ID on this website: 101177257
Location: Castle Cary, Somerset, BA7
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: Castle Cary
Built-Up Area: Castle Cary
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
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CASTLE CARY CP
BAILEY HILL (North side)
The Post Office, and front boundary wall
24.3.61
GV
II
House, now Post Office. Dated 1767 in gable. Cary stone ashlar with Doulting dressings; Welsh slate roof between
stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic; 5 bays, of which the centre bay projects
slightly and has a pediment. Plinth, ashlar quoins, cornice, plain parapet with moulded coping; 12-pane sash windows in
architraves; centre bay has a Venetian window to first floor, and below a 6 fielded panel door in shouldered architrave
with pediment on console brackets. Interior adapted as post office and shop on ground floor, first floor not seen.
Three metres south of building, with opening opposite door with steps up, and with returns to each end of building, a
Cary stone wall on lias base, coursed rubble with plain coping, between one and 2 metres high enclosing paved
forecourt: important in the setting of the house and in the streetscape of Bailey Hill.
Listing NGR: ST6407632400
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