Description

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ST6432
6/81

CASTLE CARY CP
HIGH STREET (South side)
Highfield House

(formerly listed as Northfield House Hotel, previously listed as Cary House)

24.3.61

GV
II
House, now residential home. C18, Cary stone roughly cut and squared Doulting stone dressings; Welsh slate roof between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic; five bays, of which the centre bay is an angled two-storey projecting bay. Lias stone plinth, plain corner pilasters, cornice, plain parapet with moulded coping; twelve-pane sash windows set in architraves to bays one, four and five, former windows to bay two now being blocked; centre projection all in ashlar, with 8+4+12+4+8-pane upper windows above, and below eight-pane sash windows on angle flanking a six-fielded-panel door which has a surround of Doric attached columns and full entablature with triglyphs and metopes under pediment hood. Interior not seen.

This building has special streetscape value, in particular the way it dominates the end of
Ansford Road.

Listing NGR: ST6420532420

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26472216

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990