Highfield House

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/07/2020

ST6432 6/81

CASTLE CARY CP HIGH STREET (South side) Highfield House

(formerly listed as Northfield House Hotel, previously listed as Cary House)

24.3.61

GV II House, now residential home. C18, Cary stone roughly cut and squared Doulting stone dressings; Welsh slate roof between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic; five bays, of which the centre bay is an angled two-storey projecting bay. Lias stone plinth, plain corner pilasters, cornice, plain parapet with moulded coping; twelve-pane sash windows set in architraves to bays one, four and five, former windows to bay two now being blocked; centre projection all in ashlar, with 8+4+12+4+8-pane upper windows above, and below eight-pane sash windows on angle flanking a six-fielded-panel door which has a surround of Doric attached columns and full entablature with triglyphs and metopes under pediment hood. Interior not seen.

This building has special streetscape value, in particular the way it dominates the end of Ansford Road.

Listing NGR: ST6420532420