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Latitude: 51.0922 / 51°5'32"N
Longitude: -2.5103 / 2°30'36"W
OS Eastings: 364361
OS Northings: 132670
OS Grid: ST643326
Mapcode National: GBR MV.CFTQ
Mapcode Global: FRA 56M7.HVS
Plus Code: 9C3V3FRQ+VV
Entry Name: Cumnock Terrace Including Front Garden Walls, Railings, Gates and Piers
Listing Date: 13 April 2004
Last Amended: 27 July 2004
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390885
English Heritage Legacy ID: 490828
ID on this website: 101390885
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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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.
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