Chapel Yard House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. A C18 House.

Chapel Yard House

WRENN ID: slow-pedestal-hyssop
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Somerset
Country: England
Date first listed: 18 March 1986
Type: House
Source: Historic England listing

Description

CASTLE CARY CP CHAPEL YARD (North side) ST6331 7/46 Chapel Yard House

GV II

Semi-detached house. Late C18, modified C20. Cary stone random rubble, with ashlar quoins and whole of first floor, front elevation; double Roman clay tile roof between stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays. Pairs of 12-pane sash windows in plain openings with voussoired flat heads; to centre bay an early C20 glazed door under timber lintol, with timber pedimented hood on shaped brackets. Interior not seen. John Boyd took up residence here c1835, and set up looms in this cottage for horse-hair weaving in 1837. The business expanded to the Ansford factory (qv) in 1851, and survives today as the last such weavers in the country. (McGarvie M, Castle Cary: Avalon Industries, 1980).

Listing NGR: ST6380731899

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