Church Close is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. House.
Church Close
- WRENN ID
- twisted-rubble-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Close, Park Street, Castle Cary
- OS grid reference
- ST 639 320
- Coordinates
- 51.08696, -2.516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Close is a detached house built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from Cary stone that is cut and squared, with painted ashlar dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and features coped gables, along with one brick chimney stack and one stone chimney stack. The house has two storeys and three bays. The windows are sash style, set in plain ashlar surrounds, with 12 panes in the upper windows and 16 panes in the lower ones. Between the first and second bays, there is a 6-flush-panel door in a flat-headed opening, also in a plain beaded surround. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Church Close 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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