3, MARKET PLACE
3, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383006
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 3, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 3, MARKET PLACE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16372/19
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383006
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 3, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 3, MARKET PLACE
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 54994 45779
Details
WELLS
ST5445 MARKET PLACE
662-1/7/143 (North side)
12/11/53 No.3
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(North side)
Nos.3-25 (Odd))
GV II*
Also known as: No.5A CATHEDRAL GREEN.
House with shop. c1453, built as part of the "New Works" by
Bishop Bekynton, modified C19 and C20. Rendered with false
ashlar joints scribed on, and colourwashed, Welsh slate roof
with coped gable to left, continuation to right behind
parapet, brick chimney stack.
PLAN: main range with single large room to front, entrance and
through passage to right, straight staircase inserted in C19;
long wing to right, overlooking small internal courtyard, and
return range across rear facing Cathedral Green, but partly
concealed by No.12 Sadler St (qv).
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, single wide bay. Ground floor has
projecting shop front of mid C20, with panelled ashlar stall
risers, simple hardwood windows with toplights, single central
glazed door in recess, continuous fascia, with return on west
side, with small top moulding and lead flat roof, on right in
second recess a 6-panel door set in semicircular arch with
decorative cast-iron fanlight, with architrave round. Upper
floors have wide shallow angled bay window to full height of
parapet, with exposed sash boxes to careful replacement
windows, of 8+16+8 panes to first floor and 4+8+4 panes to
second floor; cornice mouldings over each window. On left,
traces of a corner buttress, and below the parapet traces of
the original medieval string course, masked by rendering. Lead
rainwater stackheads and downpipes to each side. Small brick
stack to left gable.
The rear has a gable in rubble to a high-pitched roof with
double Roman tiles, partly concealed by the adjacent property.
This has a wide paired early C18 12-pane sash set in a moulded
stone surround with drip-course, but less deep than the later
insertion, below this a plain door.
INTERIOR: the ground floor features are all concealed by C20
fittings and finishes. The staircase is enclosed by
part-glazed C20 screens to the first floor, which has one
large room with a 2-compartment ceiling with moulded beams,
and, to the right, 2 small openings with chamfered surrounds
and 4-centred heads, leading to the narrow wing, which has, in
the courtyard wall, a 2-light casement with stone mullion and
deep splays. On the party wall at plate height is a large
section of beam with chamfers and stops on 3 moulded wood
brackets. The upper floor and roof not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: part of an outstanding late medieval planned
urban group.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol:
London: 1958-: 328).
Listing NGR: ST5499245781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483424
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 328
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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