3 AND 5, ST THOMAS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1383128
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: 3 AND 5, ST THOMAS STREET
Statutory Address:: 3 AND 5, ST THOMAS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1383128
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: 3 AND 5, ST THOMAS STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 3 AND 5, ST THOMAS STREET

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

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 3 AND 5, ST THOMAS STREET

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wells
National Grid Reference:: ST 55279 46023

Details

WELLS

ST5446 ST THOMAS STREET 662-1/6/268 (North side) 12/11/53 Nos.3 AND 5

GV II*

House in short row, now 2 houses. Probably C14 origins, with C17 and C19 modifications. Rendered and colourwashed over rubble, clay pantiled roof with abutment to west and continuation to east, brick and rendered chimney stacks. PLAN: Nos 3 and 5 joined by a shared passageway, a possible former screens passage; No.3 possibly represents the service room to the hall and inner room in No.5; heightened and remodelled in later years, the passage entry being positioned beneath a front lateral stack and with a shared roof structure of early C17 date; later rear extensions. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic. No.3 of 3 wide bays irregular fenestration. Plinth, C20 doorway with sidelight in a recess to bay 1, composite sash window of 4+12+4 panes to bay 2 and a 12-pane sash window to bay 3. First floor has three 12-pane sash windows, none aligned with those below. Almost in centre of roof is a raked dormer with a 3-light small-pane casement window. No.5 of single wide bay with flat-roofed angled bay window of 3+15+3 panes, beneath a 12-pane sash; C20 attic window in east gable. The passageway is entred through a moulded pointed arched C14 doorway, with ancient plank door on strap hinges. INTERIOR: VAG notes stop-chamfered beams and c1700 stair with turned balusters and newel in No.3; No.5 has timber-framed wall adjoining passageway, stop-chamfered beams and open fireplace with segmental wooden lintel; shared C17 collar-truss roof with tenoned collars and purlins. Reputedly the earliest secular house in Wells, but clearly much remodelled from C17. (Hale B: Vernacular Architecture Group Report: 1986-).

Listing NGR: ST5527946023

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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.