South Cary House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. House. 7 related planning applications.
South Cary House
- WRENN ID
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- 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 Cary House, South Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7ES
- OS grid reference
- ST 636 317
- Coordinates
- 51.08359, -2.51961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Cary House is a detached house, now serving as an old people's home. It was built in the 18th century, with an early 19th-century extension. The structure is made of Cary stone in near-ashlar form, featuring Doulting stone dressings, and has Welsh slate roofs with stepped coped gables on the main block and a plain gable on the extension. A stone chimney stack is present. The house has two storeys with an attic, comprising five bays in the original section and three bays in the extension. The main block features 12-pane sash windows set in moulded architraves, with a small flat-roofed dormer casement window above the third bay. In the lower third bay, there is a 20th-century door within a semi-circular arched surround, complete with a radial glazed fanlight, Doric flanking pilasters, and an open pediment hood supported by corbel brackets. The extension has 16-pane sash windows, which are larger on the lower level, with no window in the lower second bay. The interior has not been seen.
Three metres from the house, there is a Cary stone wall with coping that stands three metres high. This wall runs lower along the length of the house and is topped with spear-point cast-iron railings on a one-metre high wall, featuring a matching gate opposite the door. This wall and railings enhance both the setting of the house and the streetscape.
Local climate
South Cary 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- 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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