Black Dog
BLACK DOG, 18, TOR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383183
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Black Dog
- Statutory Address:
- BLACK DOG, 18, TOR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383183
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Black Dog
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACK DOG, 18, TOR 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:
- BLACK DOG, 18, TOR 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 55338 45905
Details
WELLS
ST5445 TOR STREET
662-1/5/319 (East side)
No.18
Black Dog
GV II
House in row. Late C16 origins with C19 facade. Local stone
rubble, roughly coursed clay pantiled roof with coped gable to
south, abutment to north, brick chimney stack. Originally a
3-unit cross-passage plan with stack backing onto passage and
services integrated into adjoining property; small wing to
rear left.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4 bays, varied fenestration. Lower bay 2
has a 16-pane sash window under a timber lintel, the remaining
windows mostly plain casements with single horizontal glazing
bar, of 3 lights to upper bay 2 and both levels bay 4, and
2-light upper bay 1, the windows to bay 3 both cross-glazed
casements. To lower bay 1 a chamfered 4-centre archway with
shaped C19 six-panel door, footscraper to right.
INTERIOR: single depth, 2 rooms, with some later subdivision.
The ground floor has some stone flagged flooring, and large
chamfered and stopped beams, and at first floor are 3 collar
trusses with chamfered and tenoned in-line purlins and pegged
through principals. One upper room has a small stone fireplace
with ovolo-mould surround, and 6-panel early door. Staircase
is a transverse C20 flight.
The property was once owned by the Dean and Chapter, and
records are said to date from 1558. The name presupposes a
former inn.
(Hale B: Vernacular Architecture Group Report: 1986-).
Listing NGR: ST5534045908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483601
- 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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