37, HIGH STREET
37, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382975
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 37, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 37, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382975
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 37, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37, 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:
- 37, 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 54893 45671
Details
WELLS
ST5445 HIGH STREET
662-1/7/109 (South side)
14/08/72 No.37
GV II
House with shop. c1820-40. Ashlar facade, red brick sides,
roof not visible form ground, brick chimney stack.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 bays. Panelled end pilasters, band
course between upper floors, moulded cornice, simple parapet
with raised centre panel. Plain later C20 to ground floor,
with doorway to left, in stone surround with deep fascia under
slim moulding/sill band. Upper floors have sash windows in
plain openings, 15-pane to first floor and 9-pane to second
floor. Additional sash windows in brick wall return to Guard
House Lane.
INTERIOR: ground floor inside modified for shop. Flat above
not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this was formerly St Christopher's Inn, later
the Somerset Inn; the property ownership extended along Guard
House Lane to South Street at the rear, and included formerly
a stables yard. See also 1/2, South Street (Somerset Cottages)
(qv).
Listing NGR: ST5489345671
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483378
- 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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