Bridge House
BRIDGE HOUSE, 5, ST JOHN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383116
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge House
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE HOUSE, 5, ST JOHN STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13174/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383116
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE HOUSE, 5, ST JOHN 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:
- BRIDGE HOUSE, 5, ST JOHN 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 54816 45537
Details
WELLS
ST5445 ST JOHN STREET
662-1/7/256 (East side)
23/12/93 No.5
Bridge House
GV II
House at end or row. Possibly C17 origins, substantially
rebuilt and extended in mid C18 and later C19. Rubble,
rendered front, pantile roofs.
PLAN: 2-room cross-passage plan plus later parallel range,
with central valley gutter; original staircase position not
known, C19 stair rises laterally to the right behind the
original rear wall.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays, with broader bay to left,
possibly earlier fire-bay; plain sashes in reveals, stone
sills. Central 4-panel door under plain transom-light in
Tuscan pilasters and with bold cyma cornice mould. Plinth,
brick stack to right. The double gable to the right, rising
directly from the adjacent St Andrew's Stream, has, centred at
first floor, a pointed light with margin-pane glazing, and a
small square attic light. The rear wall of the later range has
4-pane sashes to cambered heads in rubble walling, and central
door under a narrow transom-light. There is a small lean-to
extension to the right, corbelled over the stream.
INTERIOR: earlier fabric obscured by restructuring in the C19.
There is a stone-flagged cross passage, and to its right the
front room has a large fireplace with stone cheeks and a deep
wooden bressumer, but this appears to be recent. The room to
the left, like most of those in the house, has a C19 fireplace
and grate; some of these have decorative tile surrounds or
inserts.
The straight-flight stair rises to the right, behind the thick
original outer wall, which retains 2 blocked openings,
probably former windows, with deep splayed embrasures, and in
proportion capable of taking 2-light C17 casements. The small
projecting space off the ground-floor room is unexplained.
The property holds an important position, immediately opposite
the former St John's Priory (qv), from which the street is
named.
Listing NGR: ST5481745538
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483534
- 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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