GOAT COTTAGE (NUMBER 8A)

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
List Entry Name:: GOAT COTTAGE (NUMBER 8A)
Statutory Address:: GOAT COTTAGE (NUMBER 8A), 8 AND 8A, ST THOMAS STREET

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Official list entry

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

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

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 483547
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hale, B, 'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1987)

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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.