30 AND 32, ST THOMAS STREET
30 AND 32, ST THOMAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383136
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 30 AND 32, ST THOMAS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 30 AND 32, ST THOMAS STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383136
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 30 AND 32, ST THOMAS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 30 AND 32, 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:
- 30 AND 32, 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 55385 46064
Details
WELLS
ST5446 ST THOMAS STREET
662-1/6/277 (South side)
12/11/53 Nos.30 AND 32
GV II
Pair of houses in row, formerly 3 cottages. C18, with early
C19 front range. Rendered with false ashlar joints, Mansard
roof covered with double Roman clay tiles, brick chimney
stacks. Front range originally a row of 3 cottages, each with
one heated room and winder stair opposite stack; 2 outer cross
passages remain from original 3; to rear right is older bakery
range; C20 rear extensions.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays almost symmetrical facade. Plinth,
3-light small pane casement windows with segmental-arched
openings to all but lower bay 3m, which has a former shop
window, a bow of 32 panes on shallow riser, with shallow
fascia, cornice and flat roof. Between bays 1 and 2 and bays 2
and 3 are C19 2-panel doors, also set in segmental-arched
openings. No.30 was originally a bakery, and traces of the
oven/bakehouse said to survive at the rear.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but noted by VAG as having early C19
joinery, fireplaces and stair inscribed W. Grist 1819.
A complete and little altered property with a notable example
of an early C19 shop window.
(Hale B: Vernacular Architecture Group Report: 1986-).
Listing NGR: ST5538546064
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483554
- 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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