NOS 1 TO 3 LABURNUM COTTAGES; 20 AND 20A

NOS 1 TO 3 LABURNUM COTTAGES; 20 AND 20A, MANTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1059905
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:: NOS 1 TO 3 LABURNUM COTTAGES; 20 AND 20A
Statutory Address:: NOS 1 TO 3 LABURNUM COTTAGES; 20 AND 20A, MANTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1059905
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:: NOS 1 TO 3 LABURNUM COTTAGES; 20 AND 20A
Statutory Address 1:: NOS 1 TO 3 LABURNUM COTTAGES; 20 AND 20A, MANTLE STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NOS 1 TO 3 LABURNUM COTTAGES; 20 AND 20A, MANTLE STREET

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wellington
National Grid Reference:: ST 13726 20401

Details

759/1/102 MANTLE STREET 01-JUL-76 (South side) Nos 1 to 3 Laburnum Cottages; 20 and 20A MANTLE STREET (South side) Nos 1 to 3 Laburnum Cottages; 20 and 20A

II Commercial premises formerly a house of C18 date with late C19 remodelling to façade; terrace of cottages to the rear, probably C18 and early C19.

MATERIALS: Nos. 20 and 20A Mantle Street are of painted brick with a slate roof; No. 1 Laburnum Cottages is rendered brick with a slate roof; and Nos. 2-3 is of painted random rubble with pantiles. All but No. 1 have brick chimney stacks.

PLAN: Accretional plan with Nos. 20 and 20A fronting onto Mantle Street and Nos.1-3 Laburnum Cottages running at right angles to the rear.

EXTERIOR: Nos.20 and 20A have a two bay painted brick front (north) elevation with later C19 double shop front to ground floor. The fascia above is supported on panelled pilasters. To the right is a hornless sash window with two further sash windows at first floor. There is a timber dormer in the roof pitch. To the right, on the ground floor is a passage entry with cambered head; a timber lintel at the rear. The rear (south) elevation comprises a window to the right of the entry, casement windows to the first floor, and a timber dormer in the roof. No. 1 Laburnum Cottages is a two storey; two bay building that has a lower elevation than the adjacent buildings. The front (west) elevation has a central entrance with C20 timber door and porch canopy. There are two-light window openings to the left and right of the entrance and two to the first floor. All have been refenestrated in the late C20. To the rear are lean-to extensions. Nos. 2-3 is a two storey range with a catslide roof to the rear (east) elevation. Each has an entrance door with a trellised porch and two- and three-light casements with timber cills to the front (west). No.3 also has a late C19 three-light bay window to the ground floor.

INTERIOR: Not inspected internally with the exception of No.1; here the entrance leads into a single room that retains evidence for a blocked doorway and window opening within the right hand wall (former gable wall of No. 2).

HISTORY: Nos. 20 and 20A Mantle Street appear to have been built as a single dwelling that was converted to commercial premises in the later C19. Stylistically, Nos. 2-3 Laburnum Cottages appear to be C18. No. 1 has been built between the rear wall of No. 20 and the north gable wall of No.2. It post-dates the adjacent buildings and may have originally been used as stabling or for storage and was then converted to a dwelling.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: Nos. 20 and 20A Mantle Street represent a modest C18 former dwelling within the historic core of Wellington that was subsequently adapted for commercial use. Nos. 1-3 Laburnum Cottages date probably from the C18 and early C19 and are examples of modest, but architecturally appealing vernacular dwellings of this period. No. 1 has been subject to a degree of alteration and is of lesser interest than the adjacent structures, however all these buildings together form a group on a single urban plot and contribute to the character of this part of the town.

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Legacy System number:: 270029
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.