Cathedral Green House
CATHEDRAL GREEN HOUSE, 1A, CATHEDRAL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1382892
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Cathedral Green House
- Statutory Address:
- CATHEDRAL GREEN HOUSE, 1A, CATHEDRAL STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16712/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1382892
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Cathedral Green House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATHEDRAL GREEN HOUSE, 1A, CATHEDRAL 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:
- CATHEDRAL GREEN HOUSE, 1A, CATHEDRAL 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 55035 45822
Details
WELLS
ST5445 CATHEDRAL GREEN
662-1/7/22 (South side)
12/11/53 No.1A
Cathedral Green House
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(North side)
Nos.3-25)
GV II*
House in row. C17 or earlier, remodelled in C18 and C20.
Rendered and colourwashed, Welsh slate roof, brick chimney
stacks. Rectangular plan, roofed parallel to street; stone
newel stair to rear, and rear right wing making L-plan; wall
thicknesses in rear wall to right suggest earlier provenance.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 2 wide bays; sashes with
raised and moulded timber architraves. 3 C20 segmental-roofed
dormers with 2-light small-pane casements behind parapet; at
first floor are two 16-pane sashes, and ground floor has
20-pane. Central entrance through a C20 porch fashioned from
C18 materials, attached Doric columns carrying part
entablature with triglyphs and open pediment, framing a pair
of 3-panel doors with semicircular cast-iron fanlight over
having decorative radial glazing, (said to have come from
Dublin: the columns said to have come from a convent), and
with glazed cheeks. Stacks to left.
Rear elevation has one 3-light ovolo-mullioned window, and the
jambs of two reserve-chamfer windows below, as well as traces
of other former windows.
INTERIOR: has more columns, and a dado said to come from a
Bristol bank, the north-east ground-floor room has a C18
ceiling cornice and panelling, and a bolection-mould fireplace
with later cast-iron insert. The north-west room has early C18
dado panels, chamfered ceiling beams, and two semicircular
wall niches, one flat headed and one semicircular arched, with
shaped shelves.
South-west room has crossbeam with chamfer, bead stop and
runout, and in rear wall a 4-centre arched opening. Main
staircase c1800 with alternating chamfer stick and barleysugar
twist baluster. On first floor the north-west room has a
3-panel door, dado rail and heavily moulded plaster ceiling
with central wreath and other decoration, all front windows
have shutters.
At rear of building is a stone newel staircase with a 6-panel
door at foot, some C17 panelling (not in original location),
and an early C17 balustrade at top with alternate turned and
plank balusters, turned newels with knobs. (Although much of
the work is original, some material has been imported by a
previous owner who was an antiques dealer).
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending from the corners of the front
elevation, with front boundary railings about 5m from house,
are railings set on very low stone plinth, the rails having
necked tops and the standards cast-iron urn finials,
wrought-iron overthrow for lamp over gateway, opposite porch,
the whole contributing to the setting of the house and the
general streetscape.
The property backs onto (and was formerly part of) Nos 21 and
23, Market Place (qv).
Listing NGR: ST5503545822
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483278
- 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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