Beaumont House and Attached Walls
BEAUMONT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 17, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383047
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Beaumont House and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- BEAUMONT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 17, NEW STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03230/30
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383047
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Beaumont House and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEAUMONT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 17, 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:
- BEAUMONT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 17, 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 54927 46056
Details
WELLS
ST5446 NEW STREET
662-1/6/184 (West side)
12/11/53 No.17
Beaumont House and attached walls
GV II
House. C18. Doulting stone ashlar, Welsh slate double Mansard
roofs between Dutch curved gables, ashlar chimney stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 5 bays with flanking
single-bay extensions. Plinth, cornice, plain shallow parapet.
Plain sash windows with quintuple keystoned heads, to lower
central bay a 6-panel door, up 3 steps, set in a semicircular
arched recess with radially glazed fanlight, flanked by Doric
pilasters carrying an open pediment on console brackets. 3
segmental-roofed dormers with 6-pane sash windows.
Side extension set slightly lower, matching, but with
semicircular arched openings, to left a niche to ground floor
and plain sash window to first floor, on right a casement
window with lowered sill to ground floor and plain sash window
above.
South side elevation of 2 bays, with semicircular arched
12-pane sash upper left and plain sash to right, 12-pane sash
lower right and to left a 6-panel door, up 2 steps, under
rectangular fanlight, with timber pilaster doorcase and flat
hood.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending from the NE corner of house a
tall rendered stone wall with gateway featuring square piers
with moulded tops, contributing to the general street scene.
Listing NGR: ST5492746056
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483465
- 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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