25, MARKET PLACE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383023
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-2000
- Statutory Address:
- 25, MARKET PLACE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- 25, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- Mendip (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wells
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55051 45816
Details
WELLS
ST5445 MARKET PLACE
662-1/7/161 (North side)
12/11/53 No.25
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(North side)
Nos.3-25 (Odd))
GV II*
House with shop, now offices. c1453, built as part of the "New
Works" by Bishop Bekynton, modified in C18. Doulting ashlar
stonework with rendered and lined parapet, Welsh slate roof,
brick chimney stack.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, single wide bay. plinth, trace of string
moulding over door (on rake) and also below parapet, pierced
by second-floor windows. Shallow canted bay window through
full height, the ground and first floors incorporating
12+12+12 pane sashes, and the second floor 6+6+6 pane units.
Doorway to left, up three steps, with 6-panel door in deep
recess and a 3-pane rectangular fanlight over, set under
simple timber hood on 4 cantilevered brackets.
At second floor level, against the boundary of No.23 (qv) a
fragment of a small cinquefoil-cusped pointed arched blocked
window. On the right of the bay, the parapet is brought
forward on a corbel to an angled return with Penniless Porch
(qv ) which it adjoins. Stack to right on coped gable.
INTERIOR: ground floor has early beams with deep chamfer and
C18 timber cornice, the centre section having a coved ceiling
of the early C19; rear rooms have C18 cornices. Early C19
staircase to first floor, with late C18 doors, and corniced
ceilings to rear rooms; front room has panelled ceiling and
early C17 panelling, with safe cupboard. Second floor has C18
doors and doorcases, with some ceiling cornices, and plaster
vaulting above the stair well.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this is the only one of the whole of
Bekynton's 'Nova Opera' terrace to have retained the ashlar
front wall unplastered, with a fragment of original window.
Part of an outstanding late medieval planned urban group.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol:
London: 1958-: 328).
Listing NGR: ST5505145816
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483441
- 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.
End of official listing
