NUMBERS 60, 60A AND 62 WITH REAR BOUNDARY WALL

NUMBERS 60, 60A AND 62 WITH REAR BOUNDARY WALL, 60, 60A AND 62, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382993
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 60, 60A AND 62 WITH REAR BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 60, 60A AND 62 WITH REAR BOUNDARY WALL, 60, 60A AND 62, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382993
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-May-2000
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 60, 60A AND 62 WITH REAR BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 60, 60A AND 62 WITH REAR BOUNDARY WALL, 60, 60A AND 62, 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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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 60, 60A AND 62 WITH REAR BOUNDARY WALL, 60, 60A AND 62, 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 54805 45665

Details

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/130 (North side) 12/11/53 Nos.60, 60A AND 62 with rear boundary wall (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (North side) Nos.60 AND 60A)

GV II

House at end of row. c1810. Rendered with stone dressings, all colourwashed, hipped Welsh slate roof behind high parapets, brick chimney stacks. PLAN: a long property, with separate entrance on return front to upper floors; central staircase. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 bays. Stone plinth, panelled pilasters to upper floors, coving and cornice, parapet with moulded coping. Remains of early C19 shop fronts, with matching panelled pilasters, thin fascia and cornice, with plain windows and half-glazed doors to left of each bay. To first floor are 2 canted oriels of 4+12+4 panes on rendered coved upswept brackets, with hipped lead roofs, to second floor are 12-pane sashes in plain reveals. On the long W return elevation two canted bays matching the front oriels, and 2 doorways with plain pilasters, entablature and flat hood for surround, one a 2-panel door, one part glazed, both with rectangular fanlights, also a 21-pane rounded-head stair sash, with 12-pane sashes to upper floor. The rear NW corner rounded, and with further 2-storey extension also with rounded corner. INTERIOR: some modifications, not substantial, to internal arrangements. Features noted include elaborate plaster cornice, with intricate work to hall ceiling, much original joinery including door cases, doors, and the staircase, straight with plain balusters and mahogany handrail with exaggerated bottom wreath; in rear passage a cast-iron hearth set in white marble surround. Living quarters not seen. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: at rear is a high rubble wall with swept cavetto cornice, containing an arched opening with C20 door, and to a stone sett paved approach; the wall continues to the front of Avenue House (qv No.64).

Listing NGR: ST5480545665

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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.