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
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chapel Yard House, Castle Cary
- OS grid reference
- ST 638 318
- Coordinates
- 51.08525, -2.51811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel Yard House is a semi-detached house built in the late 18th century, with modifications made in the 20th century. It is constructed from random rubble made of Cary stone, featuring ashlar quoins and an ashlar first floor on the front elevation. The roof is covered with double Roman clay tiles and has stepped coped gables, along with brick chimney stacks at each end. The house has two storeys and three bays, with pairs of 12-pane sash windows set in plain openings that have voussoired flat heads. The central bay features an early 20th-century glazed door beneath a timber lintel, topped with a timber pedimented hood supported by shaped brackets. The interior has not been seen. John Boyd moved into this house around 1835 and established looms for horse-hair weaving in 1837. His business later expanded to the Ansford factory in 1851, which continues today as the last horse-hair weavers in the country.
Local climate
Chapel Yard 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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