8, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
8, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382919
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 8, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382919
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 8, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
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:
- 8, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
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 54875 45883
Details
WELLS
ST5445 CHAMBERLAIN STREET
662-1/7/49 (North side)
12/11/53 No.8
GV II
House in row. C15 and early C19. Rendered and colourwashed,
concrete tiled roof between coped gables, brick chimney
stacks. Early C19 front block, with C15 open hall range at
right angles to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays. Plinth, dentilled cornice with
secret gutter. Sash windows with mouldings to exposed sash
boxes, in plain openings, 12-pane to ground floor and 8-pane
to first floor. Entrance in bay 3, a 6-panel door with
rectangular cast-iron fanlight over, framed by a timber
architrave with pediment hood on console brackets. Rear range
with C15 roof structure.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having in rear range a
C15 roof featuring 2 trusses of 2-tiered crucks, purlins,
windbraces, cranked collar with cusped arch braces and
plank-like common rafters, all smoke blackened; one with
chamfered ogee profile to arch-braced tie beam and principal
rafters with morticed purlins, all surmounted by upper cruck;
intermediate truss with clasped purlins and mortices for
windbracing.
(Gilson RG: Vernacular Architecture Group Report: 1978-).
Listing NGR: ST5487545883
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483322
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gilson, R G, Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1978)
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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