23, MARKET PLACE
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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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