4 AND 6, BROAD STREET
4 AND 6, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382881
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 4 AND 6, BROAD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND 6, BROAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382881
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 4 AND 6, BROAD STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4 AND 6, BROAD STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND 6, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wells
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 54803 45627
Details
WELLS
ST5445 BROAD STREET
662-1/7/11 (West side)
13/09/72 Nos.4 AND 6
(Formerly Listed as:
BROAD STREET
(West side)
Nos.2-12 (Even))
GV II
Pair of houses in row, with shops. Mid C19, possibly
incorporating some earlier fabric to the rear. Rendered and
colourwashed, Welsh slate roof, brick stacks. The property is
set wedge-shaped on plan, with party walls converging towards
the rear; at the left-hand end a throughway is shared with
No.8 (qv).
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2+2 bays. Late C19 shop fronts with 3
wide panelled pilasters, deep moulded cornice over fascia,
recessed central doorway to No.6, door to upper floors at
centre, and blocked former door to shop front of No.4, and
large vertical panes with slender moulded mullions. At the far
left is a door to a stone-paved throughway, set across the
party-wall boundary. All windows are sashes in plain reveals;
at second floor are 2 plain and two 12-pane, and first floor
has 4 plain. There are plain pilasters between the two halves,
and above the throughway, and a deep brick stack to the right.
The parallel range to the rear includes a 16-pane sash, and a
large external stack cut back at ground floor, and cropped at
the ridge.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Part of the development which took place after Broad Street
(formerly Wette or Water lane) was widened between 1835-1849.
Listing NGR: ST5480345627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483267
- 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.
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