Description

WELLS

ST5445 CHAMBERLAIN STREET
662-1/7/45 (North side)
12/11/53 No.4
Saltyre House

GV II

House in row. C15, refronted late C18. Rendered and
colourwashed, Welsh slate roof with coped gable to west and
abutment to east, concrete block chimney stacks. L-plan: C18
front block with parallel rear ranges, C15 to rear right and
c1800 to rear left.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 7 bays. Plinth, cornice,
plain parapet. Plain sash windows in moulded architraves,
entrance in bay 3, with a 6-panel door set in a semicircular
arched recess with fanlight, framed with pilasters carrying an
open pediment hood. Bay 7 has a wider semicircular arched
throughway with a pair of C20 doors. 3 flat-roofed dormers
behind parapet.
Behind building are two extensions running northwards, the
western being late C18/early C19, with Venetian windows, the
eastern wing apparently C15.
INTERIOR: C15 wing noted as having thick walls, with 3 upper
cruck frames visible in roof space, traces of a cambered
collar and some chamfered curved windbraces. Good late C18
dogleg staircase (not seen).
(Hale B: Vernacular Architecture Group Report: 1989-).

Listing NGR: ST5488945894

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662912

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)