55, HIGH STREET
55, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382988
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 55, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 55, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2004-08-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/12783/36
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382988
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 55, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 55, 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:
- 55, 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 54842 45631
Details
WELLS
ST5445 HIGH STREET
662-1/7/125 (South side)
13/09/72 No.55
GV II
House at end of row, with shop. Mid C18. Painted brick front,
rubble returns, slate roof, brick stacks. A narrow-frontage
property with return flank to Mill Street, and gabled rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 2 windows; central raking
dormer with slate cheeks to a 4-pane sash, above 9-pane and
plain sashes, all to brick voussoirs with stone key, and with
V-joint stone quoins at either end of the front. The ground
floor has an early C20 Art Nouveau shop-front with deep-set
door off-centre, right, and curved returns to the plate
display windows, in very thin mullions with bases and
capitals, and decorative fretted heads, all to a deep fascia
with reeded cornice, and pilasters to heavy consoles to
pedimented heads. Main stack to the right, but further
full-height brick stack built in to the rubble of the rear
gable, which has coping and small kneelers.
The 3-storey return to Mill Street has, towards the left end,
in brick dressings, 9 above 12 and 12-pane sashes, and a C19
six-panel door.
INTERIOR: not generally inspected; a C19 straight-flight
staircase, with square newels, rises from the shop floor.
The delicately detailed display front is a notable survival.
Listing NGR: ST5484245631
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483391
- 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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