Tuckers And Carysports, And House Over

CASTLE CARY CP HIGH STREET (North side) ST6432 6/74 Tuckers and Carysports, and house over GV II

Large house with 2 shops. C18, Cary stone cut and squared with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Three storeys, 6 bays. Lias stone plinth, plain side pilasters; upper floors have 4-pane sash windows set in architraves; ground floor has early C20 projecting flat-roofed shopfront with recessed central doors, spanning bays 1 and 2; and late C19 ashlar stone shop front over bays 4, 5 and 6, having rusticated stone stall risers, with segmental-arched basement vents having cast iron grilles, cill-mould, 2-light semi-circular arched shop windows flanked by pilasters with base and impost moulds and cornice; matching shop doorway in centre, up 3 steps; to lower bay 3 a C20 6-panel door, up 4 steps, in very tall surround of Tuscan attached columns on plinths carving full entablature with triglyphs and metopes, and dentilled pediment. Interiors not seen.

Listing NGR: ST6414532434