Old Deanery Court With Link Wall Along East Side
OLD DEANERY COURT WITH LINK WALL ALONG EAST SIDE, CATHEDRAL GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1382907
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Old Deanery Court With Link Wall Along East Side
- Statutory Address:
- OLD DEANERY COURT WITH LINK WALL ALONG EAST SIDE, CATHEDRAL GREEN
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- Date:
- 2001-04-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/03211/33
- Rights:
- © John Boothroyd. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1382907
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Old Deanery Court With Link Wall Along East Side
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD DEANERY COURT WITH LINK WALL ALONG EAST SIDE, 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:
- OLD DEANERY COURT WITH LINK WALL ALONG EAST SIDE, 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 55025 45948
Details
WELLS
ST5445 CATHEDRAL GREEN
662-1/7/39 (North side)
12/11/53 Old Deanery Court, with link wall
along east side
(Formerly Listed as:
CATHEDRAL GREEN
(North side)
The Old Deanery)
(Formerly Listed as:
CATHEDRAL GREEN
(North side)
The Deanery Wall)
GV I
Former house, now offices. C15, refenestrated in C16 and
altered in mid C20. Random stone rubble with ashlar dressings,
mostly Welsh slate roof between coped gables. A single-depth
first-floor hall plan, with through passage to the left, and
with lateral fireplace to rear of upper hall.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 6 bays irregular fenestration. A C20
3-light window to lower bay 1, 2-light chamfer mullioned
windows to ground floor bays 2, 4, 5 and 6, and to first floor
to right of bay 2; between bays and 5, and to bay 6, are
2-light transomd windows, the upper lights pointed-arched,
under square labels; bay 3 has a moulded 4-centre arch,
reused, set in a former throughway under a timber lintel:
battlemented parapet masking roof to bays 1, 2 and 3, vertical
straight joint between bays 1 and 2. This thought to be a
separate house originally (Pevsner).
INTERIOR: the ground floor has probably early C16 moulded
beams, probably in compartments in the original layout. At the
E end a stone 4-centred doorway opens to the rear. The upper
hall, now subdivided, has a roof in 5 bays with heavy
arch-braced collars, chamfered purlins and wind-bracing, but
with an upper cruck in the end bay, adjacent to the
full-height wall inserted at the through-passage. The third
bay at the back has a stone fire surround.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending from the south-east corner is a
lower battlemented rubble wall, with a central 4-centre-arched
gateway, linking into the gateway (qv) on the south side of
the courtyard. Part of a major building complex long
associated with the Cathedral and its administration.
Link Wall along east side was listed on 130972.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and
Bristol: London: 1958-: 317).
Listing NGR: ST5502245946
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483310
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 317
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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