25, HIGH STREET, 53, SOUTH STREET
25, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382966
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 25, HIGH STREET, 53, SOUTH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 25, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382966
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 25, HIGH STREET, 53, SOUTH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 25, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 53, SOUTH 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:
- 25, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53, SOUTH 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 54946 45697
Details
WELLS
ST5445 HIGH STREET
662-1/7/100 (South side)
12/11/53 No.25
GV II
Includes: No.53 SOUTH STREET.
Shop with house over, formerly a public house, with warehouse
to rear. c1840. Doulting stone ashlar, hipped Welsh slate roof
behind tall parapet.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, single bay. C20 shop front with door in
deep recess to right, with incised flanking pilaster strips
and partly concealed cornice to very slim fascia. First floor
has a 16-pane sash window with simple architrave and moulded
flat hood on console brackets, second floor has a smaller
16-pane sash window in plain ashlar, all flanked by end
pilaster strips with incised line decoration, cornice and
plain parapet.
INTERIOR: ground floor modified to form shop. C19 toplit
staircase to house over having turned newels, stick balusters
and deal handrail (ground to first floor section removed).
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: No.53 South Street to rear, a C19
two-storey warehouse with King-post roof, slate covered, on
stone rubble and part rendered walls. Early C19 bonded cellars
below shop, house and warehouse with brick vaults and
remaining stone bins.
Listing NGR: ST5494645697
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483369
- 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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