8, HIGH STREET
8, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 8, HIGH 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 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.
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