54, HIGH STREET
54, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382987
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 54, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 54, HIGH STREET
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- 2004-08-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/12846/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382987
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 54, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 54, 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:
- 54, 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 54825 45665
Details
WELLS
ST5445 HIGH STREET
662-1/7/124 (North side)
14/08/72 No.54
GV II
Offices in former house. Probably early C19. Rendered and
colourwashed, hipped Welsh slate roof behind tall parapet.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 bays. Plain side pilasters, moulded
cornice and plain coping to parapet, brick end stack. C20 shop
front with multi-paned windows and glazed doors to each side,
first floor has 12-pane sash windows with pediment hoods on
console brackets, second floor has smaller 12-pane sashes in
plain openings. Rear elevation rendered and much altered in
C20, with casement windows, vertical timber boarding to part
of second floor level. C20 extension to rear.
INTERIOR: reshaped in later C20.
Listing NGR: ST5482545665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483390
- 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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