Messrs Parker's Shop, with House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Shop, house. 5 related planning applications.
Messrs Parker's Shop, with House
- WRENN ID
- sacred-step-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- Messrs Parker's Shop, with House, Market Place, Castle Cary, BA7 7AG
- OS grid reference
- ST 641 323
- Coordinates
- 51.08978, -2.51391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Messrs. Parker's shop, with house, is a building from the 18th century that was refronted in the 19th century. It is constructed from local stone rubble, rendered and color-washed on the facade, with painted stone dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate with a shallow pitch and is hipped at the east end, featuring brick chimney stacks. The building is set on a curve and has three storeys with six bays. The upper bays and the lower bay two have 4-pane sash windows in beaded surrounds, with the first-floor window in bay four being larger than the others. The lower bay one has a plain 20th-century shopfront with a door to the left, while lower bay three features a six-panel door with glazed toplights in a beaded semi-circular arched surround, topped with a radial glazed fanlight. Early 20th-century shopfronts, which have been adapted, are present in bay four and in bays five and six, both of which have central recessed doorways. The return elevation to Knights Way is not rendered but has matching openings and a doorway, with sash windows that have 12 panes and are probably late 18th century. There is an open timber lean-to covered way and porch supported by circular cast-iron columns, which are protected by railings. The interior has not been seen. The buildings are included primarily for their group and streetscape value in the heart of the town.
Local climate
Messrs Parker's Shop, with House 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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