21, MARKET PLACE
21, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383021
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 21, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 21, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383021
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 21, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21, 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:
- 21, 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 55041 45807
Details
WELLS
ST5445 MARKET PLACE
662-1/7/159 (North side)
12/11/53 No.21
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
Nos.3-25)
GV II*
House with shop. c1453, built as part of the "New Works" by
Bishop Bekynton, modified in C19. Ashlar stonework,
colourwashed, Welsh slate roof behind parapet, brick chimney
stack.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, single wide bay. Ground floor
has very fine mid C19 projecting shop front (shared with No.23
(qv)), probably C19 of which the stallrisers have ornamental
cast-iron vents, ornamented panelled pilasters with console
brackets on left, 2-light display window with ornamental
column mullions and rounded top corners, glazed doorway to
right in angled recess, under semicircular ornamentally glazed
fanlight, with large C19 lantern over, shallow fascia with
shopblind. Upper floors have a wide shallow canted bay window
to full height of parapet, incorporating sash windows of
24+36+24 panes to first floor and 16+24+16 panes to second
floor. Medieval string course broken by bay. Small flat roofed
dormer behind parapet, flagmast behind parapet to left. Stack
to right, on raised coped verge.
Rear elevation has one small pointed-arched window, and two
ovolo-mould stone mullioned windows, one to ground floor being
a 6-light, the other a 3-light to first floor, also the former
offset for a chimney breast, now capped.
INTERIOR: ground floor has 6-compartment ceiling with moulded
beams, an C18 part dado rail, and other C18 features, some
possibly imported. In the E part wall an elliptical arched
recess. C20 stair to both floors; first floor has front room
with 2-compartment ceiling with moulded beams.
Second floor has a timber and plaster partition to the W party
wall. Medieval roof in 2 bays, with arch-braced collar
trusses, but the collar removed from centre truss, and later
tie set lower, chamfered windbraces, and 2 purlins.
In the rear wall a single-light C17 ovolo-mould casement with
3 vertical stanchions, and a connecting door to No.23 (qv).
The front part of the shop said to have vaulted cellar.
Part of an outstanding late medieval planned urban group.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol:
London: 1958-: 328).
Listing NGR: ST5504145807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483439
- 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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