The Post Office, and Front Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. A Georgian Public building. 4 related planning applications.

The Post Office, and Front Boundary Wall

WRENN ID
eastward-attic-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1961
Type
Public building
Period
Georgian
Address
The Post Office, and Front Boundary Wall, Bailey Hill, Castle Cary, BA7 7BP
OS grid reference
ST 640 323
Coordinates
51.08977, -2.51432
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Post Office, originally a house, was built in 1767 and features Cary stone ashlar with Doulting dressings. It has a Welsh slate roof with stepped coped gables and brick chimney stacks at each end. The building is two storeys tall with an attic and consists of five bays, with the central bay projecting slightly and topped with a pediment. Architectural details include a plinth, ashlar quoins, a cornice, and a plain parapet with moulded coping. The windows are 12-pane sash types set in architraves, while the central bay features a Venetian window on the first floor and a six fielded panel door below, framed by a shouldered architrave and topped with a pediment on console brackets. The interior has been adapted for use as a post office and shop on the ground floor, while the first floor has not been seen.

Three metres south of the building is a front boundary wall made of Cary stone on a lias base, constructed from coursed rubble with plain coping. This wall, which is between one and two metres high, encloses a paved forecourt and is important for the setting of the house and contributes to the streetscape of Bailey Hill.

Local climate

The Post Office, and Front Boundary Wall 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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