The Hollies and Hollies Cottage and Attached Boundary Wall and Gateway
THE HOLLIES AND HOLLIES COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY, 14, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383045
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Hollies and Hollies Cottage and Attached Boundary Wall and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- THE HOLLIES AND HOLLIES COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY, 14, NEW STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-05-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/03230/14
- Rights:
- © John Boothroyd. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383045
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Hollies and Hollies Cottage and Attached Boundary Wall and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HOLLIES AND HOLLIES COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY, 14, 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:
- THE HOLLIES AND HOLLIES COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY, 14, 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 54967 46102
Details
WELLS
ST5446 NEW STREET
662-1/6/181 (East side)
12/11/53 No.14
The Hollies (No.14) and Hollies
Cottage, and attached boundary wall
and gateway
GV II
House at north end of row. Late C18, some earlier fabric to
the rear. Rendered over rubble, Welsh slate mansard roofs with
hips to south side and front projection, coped gable to north,
rendered chimney stacks.
PLAN: to left is a one room, double-depth unit, then, brought
forward to the right a single room unit with entrance hall and
staircase, backed by a long narrow wing, incorporating Hollies
Cottage.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 2 bays with one bay
projection. Plinth, cornice, plain parapet, sash windows in
plain architraves, 12-pane below and 9-pane above, with one
set matching windows in the north return of the projection.
Entrance in projection, a 6-panel door in plain architrave.
Segmental-arched roof dormers, that to projection having
9-pane segmental top sash window, the others 2-light casement
windows. Double gable to north, and lower 2-storey extension
to rear.
INTERIOR: the entrance hall has, to the right, a fine C18
dog-leg stair with turned balusters and open treads; the
cornice has rosettes. The front room, left, has a marble
pilastered fireplace, a decorative frieze and cornice, and
panelled double doors to the rear room which has an Adamesque
fireplace, and a palmette frieze with cornice. The rear room,
right, has rough beams, probably C17 or earlier C18, and a
3-panel door. At the first floor are several early 2-panel
doors. The main rear room has an C18 fireplace with eared
architrave and dentils, and a smaller room to the right has an
early 2-light casement.
At second floor, back, is a 16-pane sash. Most of the sash
windows have shutters. The rear wing, slated, and with two
brick stacks, incorporates Hollies Cottage, which has pegged
roof trusses, one lower room with 2 large beams with chamfers,
and a cellar with brick barrel vault.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending from the NW corner is a length
of stone rubble boundary wall as high as first floor sills,
with plain end pier and stone coping, having a small gateway
with boarded door, forming an important part of the street
scene at this point.
Listing NGR: ST5496746102
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483463
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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