Highfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. House.
Highfield House
- WRENN ID
- silent-cobble-juniper
- 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
- Highfield House, High Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7AN
- OS grid reference
- ST 642 324
- Coordinates
- 51.08996, -2.51247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highfield House is a residential home that was originally built in the 18th century. It is constructed from roughly cut and squared Doulting stone with Welsh slate roofing between coped gables and features brick chimney stacks at each end. The building has two storeys with an attic and consists of five bays, with the central bay being a two-storey angled projection.
The exterior includes a Lias stone plinth, plain corner pilasters, a cornice, and a plain parapet with moulded coping. The first, fourth, and fifth bays have twelve-pane sash windows set in architraves, while the second bay's former windows are currently blocked. The central projection is made of ashlar and features upper windows arranged in a pattern of 8+4+12+4+8 panes, with eight-pane sash windows on the angle below. Flanking a six-fielded-panel door, which is surrounded by Doric columns and a full entablature with triglyphs and metopes under a pediment hood, this door adds to the building's architectural interest.
The interior has not been seen. Highfield House holds special streetscape value, particularly as it prominently marks the end of Ansford Road.
Local climate
Highfield 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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