Melbourne House
MELBOURNE HOUSE, 36, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382937
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Melbourne House
- Statutory Address:
- MELBOURNE HOUSE, 36, CHAMBERLAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382937
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Melbourne House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MELBOURNE HOUSE, 36, 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:
- MELBOURNE HOUSE, 36, 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 54706 45835
Details
WELLS
ST5445 CHAMBERLAIN STREET
662-1/7/67 (North side)
12/11/53 No.36
Melbourne House
GV II
Detached house set back from road, converted as offices, 1993.
Later C18. Doulting stone ashlar, the side portions rendered,
Welsh slate roof between coped gables, rendered chimney
stacks.
PLAN: compact square main range is symmetrical with square
entrance hall with offset staircase flanked by single rooms
and 2 large rooms to rear; each side has a slightly set-back
wing, to the left a one storey conservatory with lean-to roof,
and to the right a larger block with hipped roof to parapet,
and with secondary staircase.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5 bays. Sash windows of 12 panes in plain
openings with quintuple keystone heads. Entrance in bay 3,
with 6-panelled door without fanlight framed in stone surround
leaving attached Doric columns, full entablature with metopes
and pediment. The left wing has one sash with keystones, and
the right wing is plain on this front. Moulded cornice,
blocking and parapet to main range, with gable stacks. The
rear has 2 large Palladian windows at each floor, and the
service wing has 15 and 10-pane sashes, and a large doorway in
stone architrave with pediment.
INTERIOR: undergoing modification at the time of inspection
has unusually high ceilings. The square entrance hall has a
fine dog-leg stair to the right, running to a half-landing at
the front of the building-the landing carried on slender
fluted cast-iron columns, and having thin shaped stick
balusters to Doric newels, a mahogany handrail, and scrolled
ends to the treads. The lower floor has a modillion cornice, a
fire surround with egg-and-dart enrichment, a dado rail, and
panelled shutters.
The upper landing has a rosette and a moulded cornice. Doors
are panelled, with raised mouldings, and the thick walls have
panelled linings. The upper landing has an elliptical opening.
Rooms otherwise simply detailed. The service wing has a wide
dog-leg staircase with stick balusters.
Listing NGR: ST5470645835
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483340
- 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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