13, SADLER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383087
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: 13, SADLER STREET
Statutory Address:: 13, SADLER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383087
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: 13, SADLER STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 13, SADLER STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 13, 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 54943 45812

Details

WELLS

ST5445 SADLER STREET 662-1/7/224 (West side) 12/11/53 No.13

GV II

Shop and offices, former house. Early C19. Ashlar stonework facade, rendered rubble to side gable, Welsh slate roof behind parapet, brick chimney stack. PLAN: double-depth, with through passage to the left, and straight flight principal staircase to its right; at the rear are various large extensions, mainly mid or late C20. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic and basement, single wide bay. Late C19 shop front across whole of ground floor, in 4 large vertical panes with very thin deep mullions, and narrow curved returns at the ends, with small fascia and very shallow cornice, continued over the 6-panel door under rectangular fanlight with margin-panes. First floor has a very large tripartite sash window, of 6+24+6 panes, the outer sashes with margin panes, and two 16-pane sash windows to second floor, over which is band course and parapet; 2 flat-roofed dormer windows are just visible behind the parapet. INTERIOR: there is a series of large rooms, with high ceilings, especially at first floor, and generally very sparse detail. The property was evidently completely rebuilt, and no earlier fabric or detail could be found. The stone-flagged throughway has an inner lobby with panelled door and transom-light similar to the outer detail. The broad straight-flight stair is well set back, with open string to scrolled ends, stick balustrade and mahogany handrail, carried through 2 floors, but reducing in scale to the top floor; at the first landing is a very large 16-pane sash to the left party wall. The principal first-floor room has a central ceiling rose and moulded cornice, and a dado and frieze in embossed varnished paper. The front top-floor room has a coved ceiling. The basement is very extensive, with rubble walls and stone flagged floor, approached by a straight flight of stone stairs. At the rear a wide opening, with a pair of doors in a fluted surround, has been blocked with concrete blockwork. HISTORICAL NOTE: the very large first-floor window suggests former use as an assembly room or similar, possibly as an extension to the adjacent Swan Hotel (qv).

Listing NGR: ST5491545806

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Legacy System number:: 483505
Legacy System:: LBS

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