76, HIGH STREET
76, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383000
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 76, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 76, HIGH STREET
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- 2004-08-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/12846/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383000
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 76, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 76, 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:
- 76, 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 54747 45650
Details
WELLS
ST5445 HIGH STREET
662-1/7/138 (North side)
13/09/72 No.76
GV II
House, as flats, shop under. C15, refronted C17; late
C16/early C17 rear wing. Rendering with false ashlar lines
scribed on. Welsh slate roof with coped attic gables.
PLAN: L-plan, with probable C15 open hall parallel to street;
doorway blocked off to right-hand former service area, now
part of adjacent property; late C16/early C17 rear wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 2 bays. Ground floor has an
earlier C20 shop front, with panelled end pilasters and corbel
brackets to shutter box, doorways in recesses at each, that to
shop on left. 3-light display window. Above, to first floor
bay 1 a double-unit plain sash window in slight offset with
hipped slate roof, to bay 2 a 4-light stone mullioned window
with chamfered mullions set in deep chamfered reveals with
label over, similar 2-light windows to the two attic gables.
INTERIOR: the building is in three parts. The street unit is
modified at ground level for the shop, at first-floor level
the C17 mullioned window has ovolo moulds inside, the roof
frame is smoke blackened and there are parts of two trusses,
one (marked III) appears to be two-tier cruck, with one
tenoned purlin and sockets for a windbrace. Blocked doorway
with chamfered 2-centred arched head to right.
The middle unit of the shop has a crossbeam with composite
mouldings, a fireplace opening with C20 arch over, and in the
rear wall a door arch with chamfer on shop side. The roof over
this section is not smoke-blackened, the frame being a collar
truss, with tenon chamfered-with-runout stops, side trench
ridge to which the rafters are pegged.
The rear room has a wide cambered-arched fireplace, and shares
the same roof as the middle section. A rare and important
survival of a stone detailed front of an early date in the
High Street.
(Gilson RG: Vernacular Architecture Group Report: 1983-).
Listing NGR: ST5474745650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483418
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gilson, R G, Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1983)
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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