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Latitude: 51.09 / 51°5'23"N
Longitude: -2.5125 / 2°30'44"W
OS Eastings: 364205
OS Northings: 132420
OS Grid: ST642324
Mapcode National: GBR MV.CM7W
Mapcode Global: FRA 56M7.P0C
Plus Code: 9C3V3FQQ+X2
Entry Name: Highfield House
Listing Date: 24 March 1961
Last Amended: 18 March 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1177505
English Heritage Legacy ID: 262014
ID on this website: 101177505
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: Hotel
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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
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