St Thomas's Terrace and Front Boundary Walls
1, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383156
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Thomas's Terrace and Front Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address:
- 1, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383156
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Thomas's Terrace and Front Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, NORTH ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- ST THOMAS'S TERRACE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS, 1-7, 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:
- 1, NORTH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- ST THOMAS'S TERRACE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS, 1-7, 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 55598 46241
Details
WELLS
ST5446 ST THOMAS STREET
662-1/6/296 (North side)
31/08/88 St Thomas's Terrace, Nos 1-7
(consecutive) and front boundary
walls
GV II
Includes: No.1 NORTH ROAD.
Row of cottages. c1860, by SS Teulon, for the Revd George
Blissett. Local squared rubble stonework with red brick and
Doulting stone dressings, Welsh slate roof with mostly plain
gables, ornamental brick chimney stacks.
STYLE: in a polychromatic Gothic Revival.
EXTERIOR: single storeys with attics, each house of 2 bays.
General arrangement is two large slightly projecting gables
forming Nos 1 and 7, these coped with finials and with pierced
circular stone vents; bays 2 and 3 and bays 4 and 6 have small
outer gables and larger shared central gables to paired
doorways; No.4 spoils the symmetry with a right-hand door and
a raked gable over its upper bay 2 window; the door to No.1 is
on the right hand bay, but to no 7 is on the north end gable.
Windows have plain chamfered surrounds, with transoms and
small-pane casements variously 1, 2 and 3-lights, with brick
relieving arches over, entrances have vertically boarded doors
with strap hinges and chamfered openings with low
pointed-arched fanlight under brick relieving arches.
Chimneys have offset bases, cross ridge, with bands, pilaster
strips and stepped caps. To rear are projecting gabled wings
with brick chimney stacks. C20 additions. No.7 also known as
No.1 North Road.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending from NE and SE corners of the
terrace a 1m high random stone wall with vertical soldier
stone cappings, which encloses the drive/gardens east of the
site, and which contributes to the setting of the building and
the streetscape generally.
The terrace is part of a group of buildings paid for by the
Revd Blissett, which included the Church of St Thomas (qv) and
the former Vicarage (now the Old Vicarage and East Vicarage
(qv).
Listing NGR: ST5559846241
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483574
- 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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