20, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
20, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
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Overview
- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483331
- 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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