The Old Bakehouse, and Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. House, shop. 1 related planning application.

The Old Bakehouse, and Front Boundary Railings

WRENN ID
errant-baluster-fog
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
The Old Bakehouse, and Front Boundary Railings, High Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7AW
OS grid reference
ST 641 324
Coordinates
51.09013, -2.51289
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Bakehouse is a house and shop located on the north side of High Street in Castle Cary, dating from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of Cary stone rubble and features a Welsh slate roof supported by abutments, along with a brick chimney stack. The building has two storeys and two bays. On the upper level, there are paired plain sash windows set beneath timber lintels. The ground floor has flat-roofed angled bay windows on either side of a four-panelled door, which is topped by a rectangular fanlight in a plain opening. Above the door hangs a sign on a wrought-iron bracket. In front of the building, there are wrought-iron railings approximately 900 mm high, supported by alternate uprights and featuring 'S' scrolls, with returns to the ends and the doorway. The interior has not been seen. The building is included in the listing primarily for its group and streetscape value.

Local climate

The Old Bakehouse, and Front Boundary 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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