56, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382989
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: 56, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 56, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382989
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: 56, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 56, HIGH STREET

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

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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:: 56, HIGH STREET

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wells
National Grid Reference:: ST 54814 45673

Details

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/126 (North side) 13/09/72 No.56

GV II

House with shop. Probably C16, C17, and C18 facade. Timber-frame, rendered and colourwashed, clay pantiled gabled roof, ridge at right angles to road. A narrow frontage 2-room plan with low ceilings, with later store to the rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 bays. Simple ground floor shop front with central doorway under jetty, the slim fascia masking the joist-ends. First floor has two 12-pane sash windows, and second floor one set centrally, with timber architraves to sash boxes, highly ornamental bargeboards probably of C19. INTERIOR: shop rather altered, but original stair with winders in a centrally located position. At rear is lofty store, a former bakehouse, with kingpost trusses, and a straight stair returning to the early range. The first floor has C19 partitioning, wide elm floorboards, and C17 chamfered crossbeams with run-out stops; the front room has a thin C17 or C18 door on early L-hinges. The upper stair, to the right rear, is C19, with stick balustrade and turned newels, and the second floor has C19 partitions. The front wall has timber-framework partly exposed, and, remains of substantial timber-framing, including one heavy tie-beam, partly exposed in both party walls. The rear room has a 3-light casement with leading and early glass. The 3-bay roof frame has cambered collar trusses, some curved and chamfered windbraces and chamfered butt purlins; the rear truss is set slightly forward from the stack. Many of the rafters are early. An unprepossessing frontage to one of the more interesting historical survivals in this street; the upper storeys unused at the time of survey.

Listing NGR: ST5481445673

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Legacy System number:: 483406
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.