20, CHAMBERLAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382928
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: 20, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
Statutory Address:: 20, CHAMBERLAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382928
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: 20, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 20, CHAMBERLAIN STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 20, 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 54808 45848

Details

WELLS

ST5445 CHAMBERLAIN STREET 662-1/7/58 (North side) 12/11/53 No.20

GV II

Former house, now offices, in row. Late C17 or early C18, refronted mid C19. Rendered with false ashlar jointing, stone dressing, slate roof; rear wing in rubble with pantile roof. PLAN: asymmetrical front range with through passage flanked by single rooms, and staircase to rear right; to the rear, right, is a long gabled wing in two sections, with coped verge at halfway point. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5 bays. Plain sash windows in plain reveals, at first floor with exposed sash boxes. Entrance in central bay, a 6-panel door in stone surround having Doric pilaster, console brackets and pediment hood. Footscraper to right. The steep roof has a coped verge to the right, and there are brick stacks to each gable. The wing includes a wide 2-light flat-roofed dormer with some early leading, and good early C18 12-pane sashes. INTERIOR: there are early doors of various kinds, including 4 and 6-panel fielded, some plank, and one wide plank door with angle hinges, under a splat grille, below the stair landing, also panelled cupboard doors. Windows are shuttered, with panels below the sills. Some ground floor stone flooring remains. There are no extant fireplaces or cornices. The stair, approached through a 2-arched opening is a dog-leg with chinoiserie balustrade to the upper flight. The main roof has very regular principals, possibly C19 replacements, but the purlin is of rough scantling. The rear wing has a narrow-span roof without collars or ties, but with very deep square purlins. The bland refenestration of the front of the building conceals an unsuspected earlier fabric.

Listing NGR: ST5480845848

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Legacy System number:: 483331
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.