Goat Cottage (Number 8A)
GOAT COTTAGE (NUMBER 8A), 8 AND 8A, ST THOMAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383129
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Goat Cottage (Number 8A)
- Statutory Address:
- GOAT COTTAGE (NUMBER 8A), 8 AND 8A, ST THOMAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383129
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Goat Cottage (Number 8A)
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOAT COTTAGE (NUMBER 8A), 8 AND 8A, ST THOMAS 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:
- GOAT COTTAGE (NUMBER 8A), 8 AND 8A, ST THOMAS 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 55321 46016
Details
WELLS
ST5446 ST THOMAS STREET
662-1/6/270 (South side)
12/11/53 Nos.8 AND 8A
Goat Cottage (No.8A)
(Formerly Listed as:
ST THOMAS STREET
No.8)
GV II
Pair of houses at end of row. Possibly C15 origins, but
largely a C19 adaptation. Rendered with false ashlar jointing,
colourwashed, double Roman clay tiled roof behind plain
parapet, between coped gables, end brick chimney stacks, that
to No.8A on stone base.
PLAN: an L-plan, single-depth layout; the rear wing a separate
property (No.8).
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4 bays. Casement windows of 3 lights with
single horizontal glazing bars, in plain openings with lias
stone cills, half-glazed doors in plain openings to bays 2 and
3. Late C20 doors and windows in west gable.
INTERIOR: to the ground floor are 3 wide chamfered beams (two
with run-out stops), a good 4-panel fielded door, and remains
of stone paving. The wing includes an early plank and muntin
door on strap hinges. The landing has two 4-panel and one
6-panel doors, and there is a C19 roof structure in 2 bays
with large principals and butt purlins.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this house was the Goat Inn from 1790 to
1938, and previously formed part of the manor house of the
sub-precentor of Wells Cathedral.
(Hale B: Vernacular Architecture Group Report: 1987-).
Listing NGR: ST5532146016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483547
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hale, B, Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1987)
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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