Northam House With Boundary Wall
NORTHAM HOUSE WITH BOUNDARY WALL, 15, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383046
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Northam House With Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- NORTHAM HOUSE WITH BOUNDARY WALL, 15, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383046
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Northam House With Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTHAM HOUSE WITH BOUNDARY WALL, 15, 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:
- NORTHAM HOUSE WITH BOUNDARY WALL, 15, 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 54922 46035
Details
WELLS
ST5446 NEW STREET
662-1/6/182 (West side)
12/11/53 No.15
Northam House, with boundary wall
GV II
Detached house on corner site, partly occupied by dental
surgery. Possibly late C17, C18 refronting, modified. Rendered
over rubble with false ashlar lining, stone dressings painted,
Welsh slate roof between coped gables, brick end chimney
stacks.
PLAN: a symmetrical front range has two long wings enclosing a
very narrow courtyard, later mostly filled; these wings have
steep roofs, and that to the left (S) has a large ridge stack
near its outer end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 5 bays. Plinth, end
pilasters, cornice, plain parapet. Plain sash window with
exposed boxes in simple openings to centre bay a C20 door, up
one step, set in a semicircular arched opening with leaded
coloured glass fanlight, framed with Doric pilasters carrying
triglyph frieze and pediment. 2 roof dormers with segmental
roofs, having 12-pane sash windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending from SE corner southwards, a
local random rubble stone wall, starting at first-floor sill
level, with sweep down to about 2.5m high, with plain coping,
boarded gate in south end, the wall being an important element
in the street scene at this point. The site was developed by
C15-a house burnt down between 1402 and 1409, and not rebuilt
until c1515.
(Town and Country Planning Working Papers: Scrase AJ: Wells: A
Study of Town Origins: Bristol: 1982-: 67).
Listing NGR: ST5492246035
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483464
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Scrase, A J, Town and Country Planning Working Papers in Wells: A Study of Town Origins, (1982), 67
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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