Gothic Villa, And Front Boundary Wall, Railings And Gates

ST6432 6/45

CASTLE CARY CP BAILEY HILL (West side)

Gothic Villa, and front boundary wall, railings and gates

GV II

Town house, now flats. Mid C19. Cary stone cut and squared with bands and dressings of grey lias and Doulting stone; double Roman clay tile roofs with overhung gables having elaborately ornamental bargeboards; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys; 4 bays, of which bay 1 is wider, slightly projecting and gabled. Lias stone plinth and band course; 4-pane sash windows with margins in toothed lias stone surrounds with Doulting keystoned lintols; gabled light to bay 1; to left of this bay a part glazed door in matching openings, with a similar door to lower bay 2. Interiors not seen. To east of house, and connected to north-east corner, a low stone wall with rounded top course on which are set cast-iron railings about one metre high with fleur-de-lys/ spearhead points, with matching gates opposite both doorways, flanked by ashlar piers with heavily detailed pyramidal caps. In a prominent position at the highest point of Bailey Hill.

Listing NGR: ST6403532388