Ritchie Hall
RITCHIE HALL, 5, THE LIBERTY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383166
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Ritchie Hall
- Statutory Address:
- RITCHIE HALL, 5, THE LIBERTY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383166
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Ritchie Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RITCHIE HALL, 5, THE LIBERTY
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:
- RITCHIE HALL, 5, THE LIBERTY
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 55046 46078
Details
WELLS
ST5446 THE LIBERTY
662-1/6/301 (North side)
12/11/53 No.5
Ritchie Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
THE LIBERTY
(North side)
No.5
(Formerly listed as Cathedral
Grammar School, North Liberty))
GV II*
Part of the Wells Cathedral School. 1884, but incorporating
fragments of a C12 Canon's Barn. Local stone roughly squared
and coursed, with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs with
terracotta ridge, coped gables.
EXTERIOR: single and 2-storey, in a C15 style, 4 bays. Bay 1
is a projecting hall, with 5-light mullioned and transomd
window with hoodmould over, bays 2 and 4, set back, have
similar windows. Bay 3 is a deep projecting 2-storey porch,
with plinth, parapet string and crenellation; the first floor
has two 2-light C15-style traceried windows, and below is the
entrance doorway with a moulded arch with label. Above the
door a flush stone plaque is inscribed:
"SCHOLA/CATHEDRALIS/MDCCCLXXXIV".
INTERIOR: in the rear part of the building are 6 square piers
with slightly rounded corners, to square chamfered abaci, and
on double offset chamfered bases, carrying a heavy square
aisle-plate. According to Pevsner documents refer to the
Canon's Barn in Bishop Reginald's time, c1175-90, and if these
are fragments from that time, they are the earliest secular
fabric remaining in the city, and hence of considerable
historic interest.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and
Bristol: London: 1958-: 328).
Listing NGR: ST5504646078
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483584
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 328
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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