Countryhide is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Shop. 5 related planning applications.
Countryhide
- WRENN ID
- deep-floor-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Countryhide, High Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7AN
- OS grid reference
- ST 641 324
- Coordinates
- 51.0898, -2.51317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Countryhide is a shop dating from the 18th century, constructed of brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings, all of which are colourwashed. It features a Welsh slate roof behind a parapet and has brick chimney stacks that have been shortened. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. It includes a plinth, a cornice, and a shallow parapet with moulded coping. Above, there are 12-pane sash windows with segmental arched heads set in moulded architraves, all under flat hoodmoulds. The ground floor has a later 19th-century shopfront that extends across the entire facade, featuring a two-light display window and a segmental-arched door to the left, flanked by panelled pilasters. The shopfront also has a very thin fascia and a moulded hood supported by dentil brackets, along with a double-sided projecting vertical signboard positioned between the windows. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Countryhide 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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