8, HIGH STREET
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1382953
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-2000
- Statutory Address:
- 8, HIGH STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- 8, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- Mendip (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wells
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 54948 45753
Details
WELLS
ST5445 HIGH STREET
662-1/7/84 (North side)
12/11/53 No.8
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(North side)
Nos.6 AND 8
King Charles Bar)
GV II*
Former house, now offices. C15, with mid C20 facade. Rubble,
but brick facade, colourwashed, clay tiled gabled roof with
ridge at right angles to road. A narrow frontage first-floor
hall plan, with stair to the left, rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 2 bays. Shop front across
whole of ground floor, with central pair of doors in recess,
under medium depth fascia, the whole appears c1900 and earlier
than work above. To first floor a 3-light transomd casement
window, and to second floor two 2-light casements, all with
rectangular leaded lights and set under brick soldier arches,
brick dentilled cornice and stepped parapet. Projecting
hanging sign to right of first-floor window. Facade continuous
in detail with No.6 (qv).
INTERIOR: ground and first floors modified, with no early
features visible; early C19 winder stairs. Second floor has
exposed C15 roof frame of 3 bays, with upper crucks to
saddles, carried on arch-braced collars, the braces moulded
and to central 'stop', one range of curved windbraces and
square purlin. In the front bay are remains of a stone
fireplace with octagonal chamfered jambs.
Roof frame indicates that C20 facade extended building
streetwards by about half a metre. The bland C20 facade
conceals a structure of considerable historic interest.
Listing NGR: ST5494845753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483356
- 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.
End of official listing
