THE CROWN HOTEL

THE CROWN HOTEL, 4 AND 6, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1383007
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: THE CROWN HOTEL
Statutory Address:: THE CROWN HOTEL, 4 AND 6, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1383007
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: THE CROWN HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: THE CROWN HOTEL, 4 AND 6, MARKET PLACE

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE CROWN HOTEL, 4 AND 6, MARKET PLACE

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wells
National Grid Reference:: ST 55010 45752

Details

WELLS

ST5445 MARKET PLACE 662-1/7/144 (South side) 12/11/53 Nos.4 AND 6 The Crown Hotel

GV II*

Nos 8 and 10 Market Place (qv) are also incorporated in the this property. Hotel. Late C16, but incorporating earlier fabric in rear wing. Rendered, probably over timber-frame, clay pantiled triple-gabled roof, the ridges at right angles to the street. PLAN: wide frontage with central carriageway, and with long rear wing to right; plan modified, but double depth each side of throughway, main staircase originally at junction of main range and wing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays. C20 timber canted bays to ground floor, with throughway under centre bay, flanked by carved timber posts, and a 16-pane light to its right; above this floor a slate pentice roof over a shallow fascia. First and second floors have shallow canted bay windows, of 1+4+1 transomd lights, ovolo mould, with continuous pentice roofs to each level, all windows rectangular leaded. Between both bays at second floor level and bays 2 and 3 first floor are star-leaded upright oval windows in rectangular panels, between bays 1 and 2 first floor a projecting hanging sign on wrought-iron brackets. Throughway enclosed at mid-point, before this traces of moulded jambs in side walls, and on right a chamfered 4-centre archway. Rear elevation has several gables at varying levels, with one wider weatherboarded gable having an early C18 composite sash window of 12+8+12 panes, with very thick glazing bars. Extending southwards a 3-bay wing, 2 storeys with attics, also late C16. Ground floor has a 2-light casement and a part-glazed door, void bay 2, 2-light casement to bay 3. The outer bays at first floor level have square oriel windows of 1+5+1 transomd lights, ovolo-moulded, with hipped slate pentice roofs, set on deep ornamental wood brackets on a carved wall plate, with carved stone panels between the brackets, between these a 5-light mullioned window. Attic windows are 1+3+1 light oriel ovolo-mould mullioned casements, mostly diamond-leaded, the shallow hipped roofs of the first floor oriels reaching the sills of these upper windows, the central oriel on 3 tall carved brackets. Further later extensions southwards. INTERIOR: the ground floor has been considerably modified in detail, but many items of original detail remain scattered through the building. The large room to the right has 2 rough chamfered transverse beams and a C20 fireplace, and is entered through the 4-centred doorway from the throughway. In the rear half is a late C16 chamfered and stopped beam. One room in the wing has one very large rough chamfered beam and a C19 fireplace. The staircase from ground to first floor is of the C20. Within the former throughway is a late staircase, and to the left is a smaller room. At first floor bedroom 2 includes 2 full-width moulded C16 beams. At the junction between the front range and the wing the upper stair is a dog-leg with splat balustrade, square newels and solid string. The main front rooms have plaster frieze and cornice; bedroom 9 has an exposed wind-braced roof, with very steep chamfered braces and heavy purlin to run-out stops, and room 11 a C16 stone fireplace with 4-centred arch. The wing has a corridor to the W (right) side, crossed by beams running through from the bedrooms. HISTORICAL NOTE: these premises, with Nos 8 and 10 (qv) were rebuilt in the late C16 by a canon resident in the Canonical House (The Exchequer) on the site of the Town Hall (qv), in what was then his garden. A small plaque on the front elevation states that William Penn preached here. (Town and Country Planning Working Papers: Scrase AJ: Wells: A Study of Town Origins: Bristol: 1982-).

Listing NGR: ST5501445736

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Scrase, A J , 'Town and Country Planning Working Papers' in Wells: A Study of Town Origins, (1982)

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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.