East House and Carmelite House and Attached Wall and Railings
EAST HOUSE AND CARMELITE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 11, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382922
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- East House and Carmelite House and Attached Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- EAST HOUSE AND CARMELITE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 11, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382922
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- East House and Carmelite House and Attached Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST HOUSE AND CARMELITE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 11, 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:
- EAST HOUSE AND CARMELITE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 11, 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 54851 45844
Details
WELLS
ST5445 CHAMBERLAIN STREET
662-1/7/52 (South side)
12/11/53 No.11
East House and Carmelite House and
attached railings and wall
GV II
House, former Carmelite convent, now divided into flats. Early
C19. Rendered with false ashlar lining, hipped Welsh slate
roof, rendered brick chimney stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement, 3+3+1+4 bays, the east bays
being of later date, and the single bay being the entrance and
projecting gable with gable pediment. Main building has
plinth, and 12-pane sash windows in moulded architraves, the
ground-floor windows being larger. Bay 3 of the west wing
(Carmelite House) has a 6-panel door with 3-pane rectangular
fanlight set in a moulded architrave, the principal entrance
has a segmental-arched recess with baseless Doric columns set
on a podium, two in antics, behind this a pair of wide 3-panel
doors with architrave, flanked by 8-pane sash windows. Above
the entrance is a composite sash window of 3+9+3 panes, in an
architrave.
The east wing (East House) has three 16-pane sash windows in
plain openings to the ground floor, above which are four C20
small-pane casement windows. Entrance to East House is through
a C20 extension at the rear.
INTERIOR: much adapted in conversion, but the original central
stairway, entrance hall, many doorcases, ceiling cornices, etc
are retained.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending from the left of the main
entrance and returning eastwards along the line of the
pavement at about 2m from building is a section of C19
railings with necked rail tops, and urn finials to standards,
then comes a lower ashlar stone wall with segmental topped
coping, with a return in random rubble work with a thicker
coping back t the NE corner of the building. At this point
there is a large segmental-arched coach entrance in ashlar
stonework, with top and coping dressed into the side gable of
No.9 (qv), this combines to enhance the setting the building
and the street scene.
Listing NGR: ST5485145844
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483325
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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