South Dene, and Front Boundary Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. House. 6 related planning applications.
South Dene, and Front Boundary Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- broken-niche-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- South Dene, and Front Boundary Walls and Railings, South Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7ES
- OS grid reference
- ST 637 318
- Coordinates
- 51.08441, -2.51903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Dene is an 18th-century farmhouse, now a private house, with alterations made in the 20th century. The exterior is of roughly cut and squared Cary stone, with a Welsh slate roof between coped gables. The building has brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and originally comprised five bays, although the first bay may have been an outhouse with a lower floor level. The windows are four-light casement windows with concrete lintels, replacing leaded lights that were noted in the original 1961 listing. The windows have panelled shutters inside. A central six-panelled door is set within a painted stone architrave with a pediment hood supported by console brackets. The interior was not viewed during the listing process.
Approximately three metres in front of the house is a low stone boundary wall rising to a height of one metre, topped with spear-pointed railings supported by braced standards with urn finials. A matching cast-iron central gate is also present. The stone boundary wall curves at each end of the house, contributing to the building's setting and the surrounding streetscape.
Local climate
South Dene, and 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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