Lush, The Butchers, and Attached House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. House, shop. 7 related planning applications.
Lush, The Butchers, and Attached House
- WRENN ID
- inner-pedestal-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Lush, The Butchers, and Attached House, High Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7AW
- OS grid reference
- ST 641 324
- Coordinates
- 51.08998, -2.51352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lush, the butchers, and the attached house is a house and shop likely built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from Cary stone near-ashlar and features a plain clay tile roof with a coped gable on the west side and an abutment on the east. The building has two storeys with attics and consists of three bays.
In the first bay, there is a two-storey angled bay window with 2+6+2-pane sashes under a lead flat roof. The second bay contains a 12-pane sash window above and paired similar windows on both levels of the third bay, all set in voussoired flat-arched openings. The lower part of bay two features a glazed door framed by an architrave with a pediment hood supported by console brackets. Late 20th-century hipped dormer windows are present in each bay.
Although the interior has not been seen, there are cast-iron railings one metre in front of the building. These consist of three horizontal rods supported by cast posts spaced about one metre apart, with a gap for the doorway and a return at the east end. This railing adds to the building's setting and contributes to the important streetscape.
Local climate
Lush, The Butchers, and Attached 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 — 7 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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