OLD DEANERY COURT WITH LINK WALL ALONG EAST SIDE

OLD DEANERY COURT WITH LINK WALL ALONG EAST SIDE, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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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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Official list entry

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

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:: 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)

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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

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Legacy System number:: 483310
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 317

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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.