23, MARKET PLACE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1383022
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: 23, MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address:: 23, MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1383022
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-May-2000
List Entry Name:: 23, MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: 23, MARKET PLACE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 23, 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 55045 45811

Details

WELLS

ST5445 MARKET PLACE 662-1/7/160 (North side) 12/11/53 No.23 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (North side) Nos.3-25 (Odd))

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, single wide bay. Ground floor has very fine mid C19 projecting shop front (shared with No.21 (qv)) over about two-thirds of facade, with 2-light display windows over stall riser with ornamental cast-iron vents, with panelled pilasters and return on right side, cast-iron window mullions, shallow fascia and cornice with shop blind on console brackets. Details continued on both return and remainder of facade, where there is a glazed door with semicircular radially glazed fanlight. Upper floors appear to have lost the former bay windows; the first floor has a composite sash window of 18+36+18 panes in plain reveals, the second floor a 2-light 8-pane casement. Traces of a medieval moulding (on a rake above the doorway, and of the medieval string course below the parapet, pierced by second-floor window, downpipe with hopper-head to the left. Stack on raised and coped verge to the left. INTERIOR: ground floor re modelled in C20, rear wall contains chamfered stone 4-centred doorway, and in the rear section a glass panel in the wall reveals a lower watercourse. Early C18 stair to first floor, turned balusters (but alternate balusters removed) and capped newels, dado-rail to wall, swept, and with wreathed foot. First floor has variety of moulded and chamfered beams. Upper stair is C20, and top floor has timber-framed and plastered E party wall, and fireplace in W wall; the rear wall has a small pointed light at the eaves. 2-bay roof with arch-braced trusses, chamfered wind-braces and 2 chamfered purlins. There is a cellar under the front part of the shop. Part of an outstanding late medieval planned urban group. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 328).

Listing NGR: ST5504445817

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Legacy System number:: 483440
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.