26, ST THOMAS STREET
26, ST THOMAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383134
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 26, ST THOMAS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26, ST THOMAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383134
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 26, ST THOMAS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, 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:
- 26, 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 55375 46056
Details
WELLS
ST5446 ST THOMAS STREET
662-1/6/275 (South side)
No.26
GV II
Small house in row. Late C16, with later alterations.
Rendered, with pantile roof and brick stacks. Current layout
is one small front room with a passage formed to its left, and
a narrower rear room, to the right, to which is attached a C20
extension; the house may have formed part of a larger property
originally on the site.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, all late C20 windows; two 2-light
casement above broad 5-light with transom. Part-glazed door,
far left, in deep reveal. Slight plinth, dying, left, to
pavement level.
INTERIOR: the ground floor only was inspected, further
information taken from VAG Report of April 1986. A narrow
passage has, to the right, a thin partition, and at half depth
of the building is a large C16 chamfered beam with a run-out
stop, which continues across the principal room, with a prop
at a junction with a smaller beam at right angles. Also in the
passage, in the left party wall is a blocked door opening, to
No.28 (qv). The main chimney breast has a C19 fireplace, and
there is a narrow staircase to its left. The rear wall of the
room is of considerable thickness, but has been opened up to
give to the rear room, which also has a thick outer wall.
The roof over the main range is late C16 with a cranked
collar, butt purlins with chamfers and square stops, and was
earlier of narrower span (pitch line of an earlier roof said
to be visible, and contemporary with roof in No.28)); over the
room in the wing the roof is C18 with tusk tenons to purlins.
(Hale B: Vernacular Architecture Group Report: 1986-).
Listing NGR: ST5537546056
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483552
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hale, B, Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1986)
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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