23, SADLER STREET

23, SADLER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1383095
Date first listed:
13-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
23, SADLER STREET
Statutory Address:
23, SADLER STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1383095
Date first listed:
13-Sept-1972
List Entry Name:
23, SADLER STREET
Statutory Address 1:
23, 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.

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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, 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 54921 45856

Details

WELLS

ST5445 SADLER STREET
662-1/7/232 (West side)
13/09/72 No.23

GV II

Row house, with shop. C16, C18 front, modified C19.
Timber-framing, rendered and colourwashed, rubble, double
gabled roof with ridge at right angles to street covered with
clay triple roll tiles.
PLAN: a double-depth plan, but the ground floor opened to a
continuous space; to the right is a through-passage, with 3
heavy rough-chamfered beams bearing on the wall of No.25 (qv).
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays. Later C20 shop front across
ground floor, with 3-light display window and deep recess to
right, with doors to shop and ginnel to rear. Upper floors
have 12-pane sash windows with timber architraves,
wrought-iron brackets for hanging baskets at each end,
first-floor sill level.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
With No.25 adjoining, and probably of the same date, as No.25
(qv). This an early property in which the original fabric has
been concealed by refashioning the frontage.




Listing NGR: ST5492145856

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
483513
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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