56, HIGH STREET
56, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382989
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-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-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 56, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, 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:
- 56, 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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483406
- 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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