Wells Cathedral Junior School
WELLS CATHEDRAL JUNIOR SCHOOL, 10, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383042
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Wells Cathedral Junior School
- Statutory Address:
- WELLS CATHEDRAL JUNIOR SCHOOL, 10, NEW STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-05-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/03230/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383042
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Wells Cathedral Junior School
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLS CATHEDRAL JUNIOR SCHOOL, 10, NEW STREET
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:
- WELLS CATHEDRAL JUNIOR SCHOOL, 10, NEW STREET
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 54960 46076
Details
WELLS
ST5446 NEW STREET
662-1/6/178 (East side)
12/11/53 No.10
Wells Cathedral Junior School
GV II
Wide frontage house in row. c1899, but on site of earlier
buildings. Rendered with lining, ashlar dressings, Welsh slate
roof between coped gables, rendered brick chimney stacks.
PLAN: symmetrical double-depth plan with large front entrance
hall and lateral rear staircase.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 5 bays. Plinth, cornice,
plain parapet, bays 1 and 2 recessed slightly. Sash windows of
12 panes with exposed boxes in plain openings, part-glazed
6-panel door to lower bay 3, with painted ashlar surround of
Doric pilasters, entablature and pediment. Slightly set back
left of bay 1 a second door, early C18 6-panelled (2 glazed)
in plain opening. 4 flat-roofed dormer windows behind parapet.
INTERIOR: all the detailing is consistent with a late C18 or
early C19 date. The large elliptical panelled entrance hall
opens left to a salon with guilloche frieze and egg-and-dart
cornice, with central ceiling rosette, and to the right a
similar room, with a cupboard in Gothick style; here as
elsewhere in the house are doorcases and other trim with
reeded surrounds to square blocking-pieces. The rear room to
the left, the former kitchen, has a large brick fireplace with
bread oven, and a large 20-pane sash window, also an early
3-plank ledged door.
The straight-flight stair has decorative scrolled wrought-iron
balustrade and a wreathed handrail. The first-floor rooms have
similar detailing to those below, and that to the left has a
white marble fireplace; a rear large sitting room has an
imported fire surround, with glazed tiles.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the site was developed early, since at least
1268, the house known to be ruinous and rebuilt in 1433/34.
There is no overt evidence for earlier buildings.
(Town and Country Planning Working Papers: Scrase AJ: Wells: A
Study of Town Origins: Bristol: 1982-: 63).
Listing NGR: ST5496046076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483460
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Scrase, A J, Town and Country Planning Working Papers in Wells: A Study of Town Origins, (1982), 63
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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