Mountroy and Attached Forecourt Railings
MOUNTROY AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 19, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383048
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Mountroy and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNTROY AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 19, NEW STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-05-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/03230/17
- Rights:
- © John Boothroyd. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383048
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Mountroy and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNTROY AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 19, 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:
- MOUNTROY AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, 19, 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 46107
Details
WELLS
ST5446 NEW STREET
662-1/6/185 (West side)
12/11/53 No.19
Mountroy and attached forecourt
railings
GV II
Also known as: The Judge's Lodgings NEW STREET.
House. Late C18/early C19. Rendered over rubble with false
ashlar lining, stone dressings, Welsh slate double Mansard
roof between Dutch curve coped gables, ashlar chimney stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 5 bays, with flanking 2- and
3-bay extensions. Plinth, rusticated quoins, cornice, plain
parapet. Plain sash windows set in plain architraves, in
centre bay a C20 door in plain architrave, with
"anse-de-panier" stone hood on brackets. 4 flat roofed dormers
with 9-pane sash windows behind parapet. Left-hand extension
has no cornice or parapet, but coped gables to a double roof.
Right-hand extension has cornice, parapet and hipped roof at
right angles to remainder, the ground floor has a central
composite window of 3 plain sashes, the middle wider.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: in front is a basement area, with 5 steps
up and then a bridge over to the front door, flanked with
early C19 railings.
This property marks the northern limit of medieval development
in Wells.
Listing NGR: ST5492246107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483466
- 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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