12, MARKET PLACE
12, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383014
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 12, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 12, MARKET PLACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383014
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 12, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, 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:
- 12, 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 55065 45780
Details
WELLS
ST5445 MARKET PLACE
662-1/7/151 (East side)
12/11/53 No.12
GV II
House with shop, now shop. C20 adaptation of a C15 wing of the
Bishop's Eye gatehouse (qv). Doulting ashlar stonework, triple
roll clay tile roof with abutment to north and coped gable to
south, ashlar chimney stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Plinth, shallow
buttresses at ends and between bays to ground floor only,
parapet string with gargoyles, battlemented parapet. 2-light
windows with transoms and mullions, the lower windows having
segmental arched lights set in a 4-centre arched recess, and
the upper windows having diamond leaded panes. Entrance in
centre bay with pair of boarded doors with 2-pane fanlights
matching top elements of flanking windows.
Rear elevation has parapet string with gargoyles and plain
parapet, the first-floor windows are single-light
trefoil-cusped with square, diamond-stop labels, and between
these a carved panel with episcopal rebus, two C20 flat-roofed
dormers behind parapet with 2-light small-pane casement
windows.
INTERIOR: ground floor is opened to a single space, and has a
wide 4-centred opening to the rear, some early C18 panelling
and a door with bolection-mould panels. There are 4 large
beams with stepped stops, and a deep moulded cornice. A
4-centred arch to a doorway gives access to the adjoining
gateway to the left.
A C20 splat baluster staircase rises to a landing with a
4-centred arch to a deep embrasure, and the first floor has a
similar small light to the rear wall, a griffon frieze and
heavy moulded cornice. The 4-bay roof has very broad chamfered
arch braces and 2 chamfered and stopped purlins; 2 dormer
windows have been inserted in the rear slope.
Listing NGR: ST5506545780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483432
- 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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