BURWOOD HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING

BURWOOD HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, 15, UNION STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383191
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: BURWOOD HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
Statutory Address:: BURWOOD HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, 15, UNION STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383191
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: BURWOOD HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: BURWOOD HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, 15, UNION STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BURWOOD HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, 15, UNION STREET

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wells
National Grid Reference:: ST 54826 45732

Details

WELLS

ST5445 UNION STREET 662-1/7/326 (West side) 12/11/53 No.15 Burwood House and attached outbuilding

GV II

Former house, now offices. Late C16 and C17; C18 or C19 wing and outbuilding. A fireback is inscribed 'PPM 1680'. Local stone rubble roughly coursed, ashlar dressings, clay pantiled roof between coped gables, brick chimney stacks. PLAN: a cross-passage front range, with shallow wing to the rear left; attached right is a long gabled wing, and attached, left, by an enclosing boundary wall, a 2-storey outbuilding, possibly a former coach-house, these around a courtyard. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 3 bays, the outer bays with gabled attics. Bays 1 and 3 have 2-storey shallow canted bays with ovolo-mould mullioned casements of 1+3+1 lights, with hood moulds to each level and hipped Welsh slate roofs, centre bay has a 16-pane sash window with exposed boxes set under a square label, and below is a wide 6-panel door, with plain casing and a timber pediment hood on brackets. Attic windows in gables are 2-light ovolo-mould mullioned, with traces of labels. South gable rendered, with two C20 windows, one to first floor and one to attic. The long N wall to the wing is in rubble, with pantile roof, and has a central ridge stack. At the right end is an elliptical arch over a plank door, and the name 'Burwood House' painted on the arch. There are two 2-light casements to the first floor. The return gable has a central plank door. INTERIOR: part of the ground floor only inspected. The cross-passage is stone flagged; to the right is a large room with fireplace backing on the passage with large 4-centred stone surround, with moulded surround and incised spandrels, all of which has been hacked for plastering; above the herring-bone fireback is an inset initialled plaque. The large central beam is also hacked, and in the rear, left corner are remains of a winder stair with solid string, splat balusters and square incised newels with ball finials. In the rear wall are remains of a doorway with 4-centred head. The left-hand room has a central beam with ovolo-mould; there are remains of 2 doorways with panelled linings; one of these has a blocked 'squint' 6-pane light. The property, now somewhat isolated by later developments, was clearly a house of some importance when built, with its own service yard. (SANHS Annual: Taunton: 1988-: 264; Hale B: Vernacular Architecture Group Report: 1988-).

Listing NGR: ST5482645732

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Sources

Books and journals
'Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society Annual Report' in Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society Annual Report, (1988), 264
Hale, B, 'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1988)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.