Number 6 and Associated Boundary Walling
NUMBER 6 AND ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY WALLING, 6, CATHEDRAL GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382897
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Number 6 and Associated Boundary Walling
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 6 AND ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY WALLING, 6, CATHEDRAL GREEN
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- Date:
- 2001-05-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/03230/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382897
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Number 6 and Associated Boundary Walling
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 6 AND ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY WALLING, 6, 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 6 AND ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY WALLING, 6, 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 54938 45889
Details
WELLS
ST5445 CATHEDRAL GREEN
662-1/7/29 (North side)
12/11/53 No.6
and associated boundary walling
GV II
House. Medieval origins, remodelled c1800 in Picturesque
Gothic style. Local stone rubble, ashlar dressings, clay
pantiled roof between coped gables, brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5 bays. Battlemented parapet to main
block. Bay 1 has a hexagonal plan projection with cornice
moulding and possibly earlier battlemented parapet, with two
single-light 3-pane windows, similar projection without
windows between bays 4 and 5. Bays 2, 4 and 5 have composite
east windows of 4+12+4 panes, with the tops of the middle unit
radially glazed, the lintels over having false keystones. Bay
3 has a projecting stone porch in a Gothic style, with
4-centred moulded arch, pierced spandrels and crenellated
parapet. To first floor are a 2-light casement to left of bay
2, and to right of bay 2 and to bays 4 and 5 are plain stone
3-light mullioned windows in slight recesses with square
labels all with wood casements having three panes; pointed
relieving arch to right of lower bay 2.
Triple gable west elevation to Saddler Street, with late C19
windows in segmental-arched recesses, with central glazed door
in deep recess. C20 extension to the rear northwards (Kendrick
Court).
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending from the north-west corner of
the house is a length of rubble walling about 4m high, with
battlemented top, (probably of C19 date), for about 17m
length, a similar wall extends southwards from the south-west
corner of the house along Sadler Street for about 22m, curving
round to meet part of Brown's Gate (qv) where it becomes lower
with a flat coping, blocked arched doorway at south end of
high section: return along Cathedral Green about 2.5m high,
with square ashlar gate piers in centre, having a wrought-iron
overthrow for a former lamp, the whole length of the wall
being an important element of the street scene in both Saddler
Street and Cathedral Green.
Listing NGR: ST5494245894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483283
- 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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