Harwood Cottage
HARWOOD COTTAGE, 23, ST THOMAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383132
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Harwood Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HARWOOD COTTAGE, 23, ST THOMAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383132
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Harwood Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARWOOD COTTAGE, 23, 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:
- HARWOOD COTTAGE, 23, 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 55372 46082
Details
WELLS
ST5446 ST THOMAS STREET
662-1/6/273 (North side)
No.23
Harwood Cottage
GV II
House in row. Late C16, modified C18 and later. Rendered and
colourwashed, triple-roll clay tiled roof, with plain gable to
west and abutment to east, no stack visible. Single
heated-room plan with cross-passage to left.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 2 bays irregular
fenestration. Ground floor has 16-pane sash window to centre,
and the first floor two 12-pane sashes, all in plain openings;
raking dormer with wide 4-light casement, with horizontal
bars, crossing line of main truss. Entrance left, with 6-panel
door on 4 stone steps. In west gable is a plain casement
window at attic level and a 4-pane sash window to the first
floor.
INTERIOR: the cross-passage, in stone, has a deep double
lintel to the rear wall. The ground floor has 2 deep-chamfered
C16 beams with half-pyramid stops; one of these is to the left
of the passage, the other centred to the main room, which has
a C19 fireplace on a projecting chimney breast, probably
concealing an earlier fireplace.
The straight wooden stair runs across the rear wall; at first
floor, on the left is a deep roof principal, with butt purlin.
The gable wall includes a cupboard door on angle hinges,
formerly a window or door opening, and the room to the right
has a floor of early wide boards.
The 2-bay roof has heavy principals to cambered collar and
chamfered butt purlins; there are mortices for former
wind-bracing. The building was formerly the East Wells Inn.
Listing NGR: ST5537246082
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483550
- 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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