8, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1382953
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: 8, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 8, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2007-08-01
Reference:: IOE01/16700/34
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1382953
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-May-2000
List Entry Name:: 8, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 8, 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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 8, HIGH STREET

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District:: Somerset (Unitary 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

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Legacy System number:: 483356
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.