Belle Vue Villa and Ferndale Villa, with Front Boundary Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Villa.

Belle Vue Villa and Ferndale Villa, with Front Boundary Walls and Railings

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1986
Type
Villa
Address
Belle Vue Villa and Ferndale Villa, with Front Boundary Walls and Railings, South Street, Castle Cary
OS grid reference
ST 636 316
Coordinates
51.08332, -2.51984
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Belle Vue Villa and Ferndale Villa are a pair of cottages that were converted from a 17th-century farmhouse in the 19th century. They are built from Cary stone that has been cut and squared, with Doulting ashlar dressings. The cottages feature a Welsh slate roof with plain gables and an ornamental clay tile ridge, along with brick chimney stacks at the ends and in the middle.

Each cottage is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows are ovolo-moulded with slim, unleaded lights, some of which have iron opening lights. The outer bays have lower windows with four lights and central king mullions, all topped with square labels. In the centre of each cottage, there is a six-panelled door with glazed panels, set in plain chamfered openings beneath moulded flat stone hoods supported by shaped stone corbel brackets. The right-hand door of Ferndale Villa appears to be from the 17th century, while the other is a careful reproduction.

On the south gable, there is a datestone from 1635, and the rear of the cottages features semi-circular arched windows with brick surrounds. The interiors date from the late 19th century.

Three metres from the houses, there are low Cary stone boundary walls topped with angled coping and capped with 450mm high railings made of horizontal square rods set diagonally on twisted uprights. The square gate pillars have stepped pyramid tops with the house names inscribed on friezes, and between them are wrought iron gates with spearpoints. The end piers of the wall have ball finials. The farmhouse was apparently gutted by fire in the late 19th century and has been carefully converted into two villas, which have not been altered since.

Local climate

Belle Vue Villa and Ferndale Villa, with Front Boundary Walls and Railings receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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