Number 1 With Front Boundary Railings
NUMBER 1 WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, 1, CATHEDRAL GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382891
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1 With Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 1 WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, 1, CATHEDRAL GREEN
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- Date:
- 2001-05-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/03230/01
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382891
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1 With Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 1 WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, 1, CATHEDRAL GREEN
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:
- NUMBER 1 WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, 1, CATHEDRAL GREEN
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 55045 45827
Details
WELLS
ST5445 CATHEDRAL GREEN
662-1/7/21 (South side)
12/11/53 No.1
with front boundary railings
GV II
House on corner site. Mid to late C18. Rendered with Doulting
stone dressings, Welsh slate roof behind parapets, brick
chimney stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 5 bay east elevation facing
Cathedral Church of St Andrew (qv). Plinth, plain end
pilasters, cornice, parapet with plain coping. Sash windows in
plain openings, 12-pane to ground and first floor and 6-pane
to second floor, some windows being blind. Central 6-panel
door with rectangular fanlight having ornamented cast-iron
glazing bars, some radial, the whole framed with stone
doorcase having attached Doric columns, full entablature and
pediment. North return elevation to Cathedral Green in 3 bays
to match.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but lower windows have panelled
shutters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending from the centre of the flank of
No.25 Market Place (qv), starting with a quarter curve,
extending along front of house about 2m away, with return
along Cathedral Green, a low stone plinth with wrought-iron
railings having necked tops to rails, and cast-iron finials to
standards, with gate opposite doorway, adding to the setting
of the house and the streetscape generally.
Listing NGR: ST5504645824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483277
- 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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