23, NEW STREET

23, NEW STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1383051
Date first listed:
13-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
23, NEW STREET
Statutory Address:
23, NEW STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1383051
Date first listed:
13-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
23, NEW STREET
Statutory Address 1:
23, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
23, 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 46190

Details

WELLS

ST5446 NEW STREET
662-1/6/188 (West side)
13/09/72 No.23

GV II

Semi-detached house. Early C19 refronting of C16 house.
Rendered and colourwashed over rubble, triple-roll clay tiled
roof with high coped gable to north and continuation to south
over No.21 (qv), brick chimney stack.
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 in heavy frame, with timber hood on brackets.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but probably retains C16 features.
(Hale B: Vernacular Architecture Group Report: 1993-).



Listing NGR: ST5493146190

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
483469
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hale, B, Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1993)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 23, NEW STREET

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