POST OFFICE

POST OFFICE, MARKET PLACE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383025
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1970
List Entry Name:: POST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: POST OFFICE, MARKET PLACE

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Date:: 2001-04-23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383025
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1970
List Entry Name:: POST OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: POST OFFICE, 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:: POST OFFICE, 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 55067 45754

Details

WELLS

ST5445 MARKET PLACE 662-1/7/162 (East side) 31/07/70 Post Office

GV II

Former market house, now Post Office. 1835, by R Carver. Doulting stone ashlar, hipped Welsh slate roof to centre porch, flat roof to sides, ashlar chimney stack. EXTERIOR: one-and-half storey central section of 5 bays, with 2 set-back single-storey four-bay wings, each end bay further recessed. In a strict classical form. Plinth, Tuscan pilasters to ends and corners, and attached Tuscan columns between bays and doubling with pilaster to outer bays of central section; full frieze with metopes, cornice, and pediments to outer bays of centre portion, plain parapets. Semicircular arched openings to all bays, with side impost, architraves and keystones, keystones, the openings now filled with plain windows except extreme left bay, with a 6-panel door, bay 5 of central portion with a pair of doors, bay 2 of right wing a pair of doors, and the extreme right bay has carriage doors, part glazed. The upper storey has 3 slim semicircular arched window to the 3 middle bays, with matching panels over bays 1 and 5 above the pediments, plain parapet. The rear elevation is rendered, and extremely plain by contrast; the central hipped roof section has glazing at the ridge, and lean-tos at each side run down to long flat-roofed wings. The centre block has 9 small arched slit-lights above 1+3 square lights at the lower level, and to each side are 1:3:1 two and 3-light casements. All these windows are barred externally. INTERIOR: has not retained any features of interest to ground floor. HISTORICAL NOTE: in a photograph of 1902 the building is shown with the arcade still not enclosed; they were filled with panels and windows in the following year. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 325; Blue Guide: Orbach J: Victorian Architecture in Britain: London: 1987-: 378; Howell C: Wells in Old Photographs: Gloucester: 1989-: 36).

Listing NGR: ST5506545761

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 483443
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Howell, C, Wells in Old Photographs, (1989), 36
Orbach, J, Blue Guide to Victorian Architecture in Britain, (1987), 378
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 325

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.