55, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382988
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: 55, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 55, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382988
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: 55, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 55, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 483391
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.