22, HIGH STREET
22, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382963
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 22, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 22, HIGH STREET
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- 2007-08-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/16700/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382963
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 22, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 22, 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:
- 22, 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 54902 45732
Details
WELLS
ST5445 HIGH STREET
662-1/7/97 (North side)
No.22
GV II
House with shop, now shop with flat over. C19 facade to
possibly C18 building. Red brick with Bath stone dressings,
hipped Welsh slate roof with ridge at right angles to road,
behind rendered parapet, brick chimney stack. Right-angle
plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 bays. Later C20 shop front across whole
of ground floor, using ceramic tiling, entrance in recess on
left hand side, under deep fascia. First floor has a single,
wide shallow- angled 3-light oriel window with a plain sash
window to each facet under a flat roof, second floor has two
plain sash windows set in simple architraves, with cornice and
plain coping to parapet over.
INTERIOR: the ground floor much modified to form the shop, but
the first floor has some chamfered ceiling beams, and plaster
cornices to front rooms, the doors and partitioning mostly of
C19, with some reshaping. On second floor the collar truss
roof frame, with 2 ranks of purlins, appears to be of C18
date.
Listing NGR: ST5490245732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483366
- 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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