12, SADLER STREET
12, SADLER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383086
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 12, SADLER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12, SADLER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383086
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 12, SADLER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, SADLER 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:
- 12, SADLER 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 54975 45799
Details
WELLS
ST5445 SADLER STREET
662-1/7/223 (East side)
12/11/53 No.12
GV II*
Commercial premises, now offices with flat over. C1800,
incorporating earlier fabric. Doulting ashlar stone, hipped
Welsh slate roof behind parapet, brick chimney stacks on stone
bases.
PLAN: a parallel range building with central valley, rear
elevation faces Cathedral Green.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 bays. Plinth, band course between upper
floors, dentilled cornice, plain parapet. C19 shop-front
across ground floor, with panelled pilasters, thin fascia and
projecting cornice on corbel brackets framing two 3-light
display windows with central transom and 3-centre-arched
heads, recessed central glazed door and fanlight to match, on
right a 6-panel door, up 2 steps, with arched fanlight. First
floor has a pair of shallow angled bay windows having 12-pane
sashes to each face, the top tiers of panes having arched
heads, set under lead flat roofs, second floor has 2 pairs of
16-pane sash windows set under moulded timber hoods.
Rear elevation to Cathedral Green rendered, with hipped slate
roof, 3 storeys, 2 wide bays having large paired 12-pane sash
windows to first and second floors, but ground floor has
paired 16-pane to the left and 12-pane to the right, with
central C19 flush panelled door in reeded pilasters set to
high stone plinths, and with a 'floating' cornice set on a
deep stone frieze.
Both ranges have steep hipped roofs, and the front range has a
large stack in rubble, raised in brick, on the N party wall.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this property was first established c1370,
when the E side of Sadler Street was developed; the building
originally straddled a N/S wall to the Cathedral Precinct.
A fine commercial facade of the period.
(Town and Country Planning Working Papers: Scrase AJ: Wells: A
Study of Town Origins: Bristol: 1982-: 59).
Listing NGR: ST5497545801
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483504
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Scrase, A J, Town and Country Planning Working Papers in Wells: A Study of Town Origins, (1982), 59
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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