Description

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET
662-1/7/116 (North side)
12/11/53 No.44

GV II

House with shop, now offices with shop. Late C18 or early C19.
Brick with stone dressings, colourwashed, double roof of clay
pantiles between coped gables, brick chimney stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays. C20 shop fronts across whole of
ground floor, with office doorway to left and shop doorways
recessed together in middle. First floor has in outer bays
paired 12-pane sashes with central single 12-pane with added
semicircular head, similar pairs and single 9-pane sash
windows to second floor, the central single-light having a
segmental arched head, and the remainder flat gauged brick
arches, both central windows glazed but 'blind'. Plain parapet
has small moulded cornice and simple coping.
INTERIOR: ground floor much remodelled, but first floor has
the exposed framework of part of a stud partition, some early
C19 doors and doorcases, panelled reveals to some windows,
early C19 staircase from first to second floors; half-round
arched cupboard in east party wall, first floor.

Listing NGR: ST5485245678

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662974

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)