THE GEORGIAN HOUSE

THE GEORGIAN HOUSE, 7, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382898
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: THE GEORGIAN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE GEORGIAN HOUSE, 7, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382898
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-May-2000
List Entry Name:: THE GEORGIAN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE GEORGIAN HOUSE, 7, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE GEORGIAN HOUSE, 7, 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 54957 45900

Details

WELLS

ST5445 CATHEDRAL GREEN 662-1/7/30 (North side) 12/11/53 No.7 The Georgian House (Formerly Listed as: CATHEDRAL GREEN (North side) Nos.7 AND 7A)

GV II

House. Late C18. Doulting stone ashlar, Welsh slate Mansard roof between coped gables, stone end chimney stacks. Symmetrical plan, central wide hall to rear transverse staircase. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 5 bays. Plinth, moulded cornice, plain parapet. Twelve-pane sash windows in plain openings with quintuple-keystoned heads. Central bay 3 has a projecting stone porch with corner fluted Doric columns on plinths, full entablature and pediment, framing a pair of 3-panel doors, the inner doors margin-glazed with decorative semicircular cast-iron fanlight over. The rear has a large arched staircase sash with Y-bars. INTERIOR: the entrance porch has a floor with sunk well, all from one large lias slab. The entrance hall and return corridor have lias slab flooring, and there is a wide elliptical arch on broad fluted responds and with panelled intrados, leading to the transverse staircase with very slender turned-on-square balusters, scrolled string, and mahogany wreathed and swept handrail. The large room to the left has a fluted cornice, and a wide blind recess to the rear wall, with elliptical head; the C19 white marble fireplace is also flanked by arched recesses. The room to the right also with white marble C19 fire surround. At first floor is a plain elliptical arch from the staircase, but filled with later doors, and the top flight of the stair has been modified, but is in matching detail. A first-floor room, right, has an Art Deco fire surround. Doors are generally 6-panel, fielded, in wide moulded architraves, and front windows have original shutters.

Listing NGR: ST5495745903

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Legacy System number:: 483284
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.