17, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
17, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382926
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 17, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 17, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382926
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 17, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, 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:
- 17, 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 54780 45811
Details
WELLS
ST5445 CHAMBERLAIN STREET
662-1/7/56 (South side)
12/11/53 No.17
GV II
House, probably once two houses. Late C16 or C17, early C19
facade, and C18 extension in one bay to left, returning to
Union Street. Rendered and colourwashed, triple roll clay
tiled roof with stepped coped east gable, abutment to west,
behind a parapet, brick chimney stacks.
PLAN: the original house was central entry cross-passage plan,
left room heated, with staircase rear right; a further bay
added, with second staircase. Lean-to additions in 2 parts to
rear, with small enclosed garden.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays, of which bay 1 projects slightly.
Sash windows with exposed boxes in plain openings, 6-pane
lower bay 1 and upper bays 2 and 3, with 9-pane windows to
lower bays 2 and 3, no window upper bay 1. Entrance doors
between bays 1 and 2 and 2 and 3, the former a C19 boarded
door and the latter a 6-panel door with plain architrave
crowned with a label moulding. At the former left gable, where
the 2 ranges join, is a double brick stack. The gabled return
to Union Street has a large arched 12-pane sash.
INTERIOR: the whole ground floor of the early section has
large lias stone flags. Ceilings are very low. The staircase
is a tight wooden spiral, and at first floor some wide elm
boards remain. First floor left has a fireplace with a very
large timber bressumer. The roof is in 3 bays with heavy
pegged collar principals to a diagonal ridge, stopped chamfer
purlins, and many original rafters: the ties have been cut
out, and lower collars bolted on. The added bay has a straight
flight stair with winders at the top.
An interesting early building, set down slightly from the
street level, and indicating its early provenance from the
small vertical scale.
Listing NGR: ST5478045811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483329
- 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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