3, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382894
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: 3, CATHEDRAL GREEN
Statutory Address:: 3, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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Date:: 2006-04-11
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382894
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: 3, CATHEDRAL GREEN
Statutory Address 1:: 3, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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:: 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

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Legacy System:: LBS

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