Ochil Tree House

CASTLE CARY CP UPPER HIGH STREET (North side) ST6432 6/119 Ochil Tree House (formerly listed as Ochiltree House) 24.3.61 GV II

House at end of row. Circa 1825, probably built by William Payne, carpenter. Finely jointed red brick, Flemish bond, Doulting stone dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Above, 16-pane sash windows, below 4-pane sashes, in plain openings with rubbed brick voussoired flat heads, central keystones; to lower bay 3 a 6-panel door with glazed toplights set in architrave, up 3 steps, under pediment hood; to lower bay 5 a wide elliptical arched throughway with plain ashlar surround; incised on arch and impost 'John Boyd and Co. Ltd. Estd 1867"; the entrance now divided, forming narrow through-corridor and then pair double boarded doors, with panels over. Interior adapted, now offices of Avalon Components Ltd, who modified house at rear in l979. From 1851 home of John Boyd, horsehair weaver, who established his business at Chapel Yard House (qv) in 1840; the first instalment of his Ansford factory was built in the grounds in 1851. The name of the house comes from Boyd's birthplace in Scotland. (McGarvie M;, Castle Cary: Avalon Industries, 1980).

Listing NGR: ST6433432443