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24 Old Wells Road

24 Old Wells Road, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 5XL

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A dwelling of C17 origin retaining evidence of a former stair turret and other historic fabric of note including a window with ovolo mouldings. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1173391
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: 24 Old Wells Road
Statutory Address:: 24 Old Wells Road, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 5XL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1173391
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Nov-2019
List Entry Name:: 24 Old Wells Road
Statutory Address 1:: 24 Old Wells Road, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 5XL

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:: 24 Old Wells Road, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 5XL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shepton Mallet
National Grid Reference:: ST6105143362

Summary

A dwelling of C17 origin retaining evidence of a former stair turret and other historic fabric of note including a window with ovolo mouldings.

Reasons for Designation

24 Old Wells Road is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural and historic interest: * as good surviving example of a C17 dwelling built in the vernacular traditions of the region: of rubble stone with a stair turret to the rear of the building and a surviving mullioned window with ovolo mouldings; * the building retains other good architectural detailing, of C19 date or earlier, including stone-flag floors and some joinery including casements, which is illustrative of the evolution of the building through its history as traditional lifestyles have changed over time.

History

The house is a dwelling of early-C17 origin. A building is shown on the site on the 1840s tithe map for Shepton Mallet and appears to have been extended to the west by the time the area was surveyed for the Ordnance Survey Map of 1888. It is shown with an outshut to the right end of the façade on the 1903 Ordnance Survey edition. In the later C20 a concrete block store with attached single garage and car port were built on the west of the house, and alterations have been made to the building including the replacement of roof structure and some windows and doors, and the insertion of a central stair. The house has been refurbished in the early C21.

Details

A dwelling of early-C17 origin, extended to the west in the mid-C19 and with a late-C19 outshut.

MATERIALS: constructed of rubble stone with double roman tile roof with brick stacks. The outshut is of rubble and brick with a modern roof.

PLAN: on an east/west orientation the building is a three-room plan with central stair. It was originally of two units, the west bay being a C19 addition. There is a former stair turret to the north-east corner. An outshut is at right angles to east end of the façade. A mid-late store, car port and garage are attached to the west end of the house.

EXTERIOR: of two storeys under a pitched roof, the elevations are painted rubble. The façade is of three irregular bays with a door to right of centre with a plain stone architrave and modern door. To its left is an early-C17 tripartite mullioned casement opening with ovolo mouldings and a hoodmould with labels. The other openings have stone architraves and timber casements, except to ground-floor right, which is uPVC. The outshut to the right has modern fenestration and roof coverings. The west flank of the house has a modern door and attached C20 store and garage. The rear has two small openings to the ground floor, one with a timber surround, and to the left is the bowed stair turret. The roof has coped verges with kneelers and three ridge stacks, and there are two modern rooflights to the rear slope.

INTERIOR: the ground floor is stone-flagged to the west (kitchen) and central rooms. The east room has a modern floor, an inglenook with C20 oak bressumer, and a former stair turret to the back wall with a small opening. The lateral ceiling beams to each room are covered over. The timber central stair is of C20 construction and a stair cupboard facing the centre room has iron hinges. The door to the kitchen is through the former end wall of the two-unit dwelling. The end wall incorporates a sealed chimney breast with part of the plaster cut away to expose the bressumer end. The kitchen has a fireplace with spalled stone surround in the west wall, and a timber, recessed shelving unit to the left, possibly with pre-C20 elements. To the first floor are four-panelled doors, a fitted cupboard and pine floorboards. The roof structures have been at least partially replaced in the later C20.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 266603
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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

The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building but not coloured blue on the map, are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act. However, any works to these structures which have the potential to affect the character of the listed building as a building of special architectural or historic interest may still require Listed Building Consent (LBC) and this is a matter for the Local Planning Authority (LPA) to determine.