21, NEW STREET
21, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383050
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 21, NEW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 21, NEW STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-07-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/03230/31
- Rights:
- © John Boothroyd. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383050
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- 21, NEW STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21, 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:
- 21, 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 54931 46182
Details
WELLS
662-1/6/187 NEW STREET 13-SEP-1972 (West side) 21
GV II
GV II House. Early C19 refronting of C16 house. Rendered and colourwashed over rubble, triple roll clay tiled roof with high coped gable to south, and continuation to north over No.23 (qv) , brick chimney stacks. One-unit plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 bays. Plinth. Ground floor has 12-pane sash windows in plain openings, first floor has 2-light cross-glazed casement windows. Entrance between bays, a part-glazed door on heavy frame, with timber hood on brackets. Small pointed arch attic window in south gable end.
INTERIOR: VAG report notes C16 open fireplace with scratch-moulded flanking cupboards to right, winder stair to rear; stack to left, probably inserted into former passage with beam morticed for former partition to right; 3-bay roof with notched tenoned apexes, 2 tiers of in-line tenoned purlins and cranked tenoned collars.
(Hale B: Vernacular Architecture Group. Report: 1993-)
Listing NGR: ST5493146182
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483468
- 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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