Ochil Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. A 19th century House. 1 related planning application.
Ochil Tree House
- WRENN ID
- carved-thatch-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- House
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Ochil Tree House, Upper High Street, Castle Cary, BA7 7AR
- OS grid reference
- ST 643 324
- Coordinates
- 51.09018, -2.51064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ochil Tree House is a house located at the end of a row on Upper High Street in Castle Cary, dating from around 1825 and likely built by carpenter William Payne. The house features finely jointed red brick in Flemish bond with Doulting stone dressings, a hipped Welsh slate roof, and brick chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and has five bays.
On the upper level, there are 16-pane sash windows, while the lower level has 4-pane sashes, all set in plain openings with rubbed brick voussoired flat heads and central keystones. In the lower bay 3, there is a 6-panel door with glazed toplights, framed by an architrave and accessed by three steps, topped with a pediment hood. Lower bay 5 features a wide elliptical arched throughway with a plain ashlar surround, inscribed on the arch and impost with "John Boyd and Co. Ltd. Estd 1867." The entrance has been divided, creating a narrow through-corridor leading to a pair of double boarded doors with panels above.
The interior has been adapted and is currently used as offices for Avalon Components Ltd, who made modifications to the rear of the house in 1979. From 1851, the house was the home of John Boyd, a horsehair weaver who established his business at Chapel Yard House in 1840. The first part of his Ansford factory was built in the grounds in 1851. The name "Ochil Tree House" comes from Boyd's birthplace in Scotland.
Local climate
Ochil Tree 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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