Elizabeth Crossley Fox and Sons is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Shop and offices.

Elizabeth Crossley Fox and Sons

WRENN ID
worn-pier-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1986
Type
Shop and offices
Address
Elizabeth Crossley Fox and Sons, High Street, Castle Cary
OS grid reference
ST 641 324
Coordinates
51.0899, -2.5132
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fox and Sons, with Elizabeth Crossley, is a shop and offices built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from Cary stone that is cut and squared, with Doulting dressings and a Welsh slate roof behind a parapet. The building has two storeys and two bays, featuring a lias stone plinth, a cornice, and a plain ashlar parapet with simple coping. The upper section has 12-pane sash windows set in toothed ashlar surrounds, while the lower section has two matching detailed shopfronts, likely from the late 19th century, complete with fascias and hoodmoulds. The left shopfront is simple, while the right has a later glazed door set in a recess to the right. Between the bays, there is a six-panelled door with a glazed toplight, framed by an architrave. Additionally, there are two wrought iron brackets for hanging signs at first floor level, positioned to the right of each window. The interiors have not been seen.

Local climate

Elizabeth Crossley Fox and Sons 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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