Description

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET
662-1/7/89 (South side)
13/09/72 No.13

GV II

House with shop, now shop with offices over. Late C18. Brick
with ashlar stonework dressings, all painted, Welsh slate
covered Mansard roof behind parapet.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, single wide bay. Plain
pilasters, cornice, tall plain parapet. Ground floor later
C20, with 2-light display window to supermarket, and on right
a plain doorway with 6- panel door. Across the whole facade a
projecting fascia with moulded top surmounted by small
wrought-iron railings, to first and second floors a shallow
angled bay window, with 3 four-pane sashes to first floor and
with 16-pane sashes to second floor, the bay being carried up
to top of parapet level. Dormer window with slightly segmental
roof behind parapet.
INTERIOR: ground-floor totally modified, but there is a good
ceiling cornice to the front first-floor room, and the stairs
from first to second-floor, with turned balusters. The front
second--floor room retains a Regency dado and doorcase (but
with modern door). Little of interest on attic floor.

Listing NGR: ST5495245724

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662951

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