The Pines is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Detached house. 1 related planning application.
The Pines
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-keystone-furze
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- The Pines, Upper High Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7AY
- OS grid reference
- ST 644 324
- Coordinates
- 51.0902, -2.50941
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pines is a detached house built in the late 18th century. It is constructed from Cary stone with Doulting stone dressings, while the main facade features fine-jointed red brick laid in Flemish bond. The roof is covered with plain clay tiles and has stepped coped gables, with a parapet on the street elevation. The house has ashlar chimney stacks with moulded caps and stands two storeys tall with attics, displaying a 5-bay facade.
The architectural details include an ashlar plinth, rusticated corner pilasters, a dentilled cornice, and a plain brick parapet with moulded coping. The windows are 12-pane sash types set in plain openings, featuring gauged brick flat heads and stone cills. In the lower bay three, there is a wide 6-panel door set within an elliptical arch, which has moulded imposts and an architrave. This door is flanked by Doric attached columns that support a full entablature with triglyphs and metopes, topped with a pediment hood. Some of the extensions at the rear may date from the same period.
In the 20th century, the house was home to T.S. Donne from the Flax Mill family, who passed away in 1957. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Pines 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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