Belle Vue Villa And Ferndale Villa, With Front Boundary Walls And Railings

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CASTLE CARY CP SOUTH STREET (East side)

Belle Vue Villa and Ferndale Villa, with front boundary walls and railings

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Pair cottages. A C19 conversion of C17 farmhouse. Cary stone cut and squared, Doulting ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with plain gables and ornamental clay tile ridge; brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays each cottage. Ovolo-mould windows with slim lights, unleaded, some having iron opening lights; above, 3, 2 and 3-light, lower windows to outer-bays of 4-lights with central king mullions, all having square labels; to centre bay of each house a 6-panelled door, with glazed panels, set in plain chamfered openings under moulded flat stone hoods on shaped stone corbel brackets - the right-hand door, to Ferndale Villa, appears to be C17 and the other a careful copy. In south gable a datestone of 1635; to rear are brick surround semi-circular arched windows. Interiors totally late C19, Three metres from houses low Cary stone walls with angled coping capped with 450mm high railings of horizontal square rods set diagonally on twist uprights; square gate pillars with stepped pyramid tops, with house names inscribed on friezes; between them wrot iron gates with spearpoints; end piers to wall have ball finials. Farmhouse apparently gutted by fire in late C19; carefully converted into two villas, and apparently not altered since.

Listing NGR: ST6368431686