4, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382949
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: 4, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 4, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382949
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: 4, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 4, HIGH STREET

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 4, HIGH STREET

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wells
National Grid Reference:: ST 54960 45754

Details

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/80 (North side) 24/01/94 No.4

GV II

House in row, with shop. Late C15 or C16 structure to rear, some C17 fabric in front range, mid C20 facade. Rubble with some timber-frame, but rendered and colourwashed brickwork facade, slate roofs. PLAN: a narrow-frontage unit with winder stair rear right, and a small yard to rear, right, covered; to the rear, offset left, and interlocking with No.6 (qv) adjoining, a shallow range parallel with High Street and with gable to the E. All considerably modified by removal of walls and structure. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 1 bay width; ground floor C20 shop-front with near-central recessed doorway and deep fascia. At first floor is a wide 9-light steel casement, and above is a similar 6-light casement. False pilasters return as a dentilled parapet, all formed in the rendering; the gable to the rear range is rendered, and contains an early C19 16-pane sash. The main range also has an early 2-light casement in the rear wall. INTERIOR: the ground-floor front has no early structure visible; the rear room is smaller, with one chamfered and stopped beam, built into the wall, left, but suspended on a stirrup, right, where earlier walling has been removed. There is an C18 fielded panel door to the basement (not accessible). A late C19 dog-leg staircase to the right has remains of a diagonal stick balustrade with turned newel, and at the upper landing, where structural walling has been removed, is a slender cast-iron column carrying a beam. First-floor front has, approximately 800mm from the front wall, a full-width chamfered beam with lamb's-tongue stops. The rear room has substantial remains of heavy framing, but to the right the original structure was removed, and a thick wall inserted, itself now partly removed. In the party wall are 2 substantial structural posts, one in the rear corner with wide rough chamfer to a run-out stop carrying a broad beam partly built in to the party wall at the rear; this wall has a C20 fireplace. The centre beam has large square stops to the left, and run-out to the right, partly built in to the wall. The upper flight of stairs has been removed. Second floor front has no visible early features, and a steep hipped roof of the C20. The rear room, entered through a wide-plank ledged door, has a 2-bay roof with 2 trusses-the third, to the right, removed with the rebuilding of this gable wall. The roof has cambered collars, 2 purlins with run-out stops, and broad chamfered wind-braces in the middle range; the outer brace to the E is missing. This property has considerable historic fabric of interest, which appears to interlock with, and may have been built as part of No.6; the shallow front range is oddly related on plan. (Hale B: Vernacular Architecture Group Report: 1988-).

Listing NGR: ST5495845756

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Hale, B, 'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1988)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.