Box Bush Cottage
BOX BUSH COTTAGE, 25A, SADLER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383097
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Box Bush Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BOX BUSH COTTAGE, 25A, SADLER STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16712/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383097
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Box Bush Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOX BUSH COTTAGE, 25A, 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:
- BOX BUSH COTTAGE, 25A, 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 54912 45859
Details
WELLS
ST5445 SADLER STREET
662-1/7/234 (West side)
No.25A
Box Bush Cottage
GV II
House attached to rear and formerly part of No.25 (qv). Rubble
and pantile. Some C17 internal fabric, refronted late C18 or
early C19, substantially restored late C20. 2-room
single-depth plan with central staircase, and symmetrical
front.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows with two 12-pane
replacement sashes flanking a blind opening above a flat
canted bay and 16-pane sash with central C19 part-glazed door.
INTERIOR: the ground floor retains 3 rough deep-chamfered
beams, and the room to the left has a deep niche, possibly a
former window opening; the renewed winder staircase includes a
part-glazed screen removed from a chapel in Union Street.
At the head of the stair is an C18 fielded 3-panel door. The
first floor has small bressumer fireplace, with segmental head
and stopped ends, and further rough beams. The upper winder
stair is of the early fabric, and the 3-bay roof has heavy
tie-beams with late C20 steel props, and one purlin.
Listing NGR: ST5491245859
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483515
- 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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