3, CATHEDRAL GREEN
3, CATHEDRAL GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382894
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 3, CATHEDRAL GREEN
- Statutory Address:
- 3, CATHEDRAL GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382894
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 3, CATHEDRAL GREEN
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, 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:
- 3, 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 55015 45810
Details
WELLS
ST5445 CATHEDRAL GREEN
662-1/7/24 (South side)
13/09/72 No.3
GV II
House in row. Early C17 or earlier, mid C18 facade, late C19
dormers. Rendered and colourwashed, double Roman clay tile
roof, brick chimney stacks.
PLAN: an L-plan layout, with long rear wing to the left with
low ceilings, of early date, open well staircase at junction
of this with main front range, which is of single room depth,
and small internal courtyard.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics, and cellar: 5 bays. Sash windows
with exposed boxes, of 12 panes, to centre bay of ground floor
is a Regency pattern 6-panel door with decorative rectangular
transom-light over, encased in moulded timber surround, with
flat hood. 3 gabled dormers with 2-light casements and splayed
glazed cheeks. At basement level are 2 lights in recessed
chamfered surrounds, and with grilles. Each party wall has a
raised and coped verge and a brick stack.
INTERIOR: ground floor has smaller room to right with 2
transverse beams, also kitchen and a new wing, the main room
to the left has dado panelling, 6-panel doors, and a large
early C17 chamfered beam. In the rear wing is a 4-light
recessed chamfer stone mullioned casement facing a courtyard.
The staircase is a fine Jacobean design with splat balusters
and deep moulded string. At first floor the principal bedroom,
with 3 windows, is entered through a C17 door with 3
horizontal panels, and the adjoining room has 2 deep recesses,
and a moulded and reeded fire surround; a rear room has C18
dado panelling and doors.
The property backs onto Nos 13 and 15, Market Place (qqv), and
incorporates a part flying freehold; the cellar is part of the
Market Place property.
In the C19 this was a school, later became 5 flats, and is now
one house.
Listing NGR: ST5501545810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483280
- 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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