GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL TO THE OLD DEANERY

GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL TO THE OLD DEANERY, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1382908
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL TO THE OLD DEANERY
Statutory Address:: GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL TO THE OLD DEANERY, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1382908
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-May-2000
List Entry Name:: GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL TO THE OLD DEANERY
Statutory Address 1:: GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL TO THE OLD DEANERY, CATHEDRAL GREEN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL TO THE OLD DEANERY, CATHEDRAL GREEN

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wells
National Grid Reference:: ST5503345919

Details

ST5545 662-1/7/40 12/11/53

WELLS

CATHEDRAL GREEN (North side) Gatehouse and south boundary wall to the Old Deanery (Formerly Listed as: CATHEDRAL GREEN (North side) The Old Deanery)

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Gatehouse and boundary walling. C15 much restored. Gatehouse has ashlar ground floor and dressings, with coursed rubble above, gabled Welsh slate roof behind battlemented parapets. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 bays. Lower bay 1 has a moulded 4-centred wagon arch with a pair of wooden doors which may be at least partly medieval; bay 2 a matching pedestrian arch, above are chamfer-mullioned and transomed 2-light windows with cinquefoil cusping and square labels, between bays a corbelled chimney stack, cropped at the lower edge of the parapet. The inner elevation has a wider segmental arch embracing both bays, above which, towards the east end, is a 2-light window without transom, small stair turret to north-west corner. The soffit over the archway has 2 heavy chamfered beams and plastered panels. In the wall to the right at ground floor is a small rectangular light, and a 3-plank door with stopped moulded frame in a 4-centred flush opening. INTERIOR: the ground floor has a bedroom, part of a former stable, with wide braced plank and batten door under a 16-pane transom-light, and a 3-light stone casement with C17 ovolo-mould mullions and early leaded glazing. The entrance has a fine overlapping 3-plank door, and under the staircase is a 4-panel C17 door, with raised fielded panels on the reverse; over the stair is a deep beam with lamb's-tongue stop. The first floor single room has in the S wall a stone fire surround with chamfered square opening; above this is a floating mantelshelf with a brattished cornice, carried on 3 conical brackets, possibly statue bases. In the SW corner is an entrance to a former privy, with hinge-pin, and from the NW corner is a stone spiral staircase with stone pinnacle. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending to the E is a high random rubble wall with ashlar crenellated coping, with a 4-centred moulded arched doorway giving to the Wells Museum (qv), at the eastern end, and finishing to a straight joint. A double wall extends westwards for about 12m to the Old Deanery (qv), and beyond this a further 20m of high wall to match, with gateway (possibly C20) into the former herb garden of William Turner (1508-1568); this also finishes to a straight joint.

Listing NGR: ST5503345919

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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.