Description

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET
662-1/7/125 (South side)
13/09/72 No.55

GV II

House at end of row, with shop. Mid C18. Painted brick front,
rubble returns, slate roof, brick stacks. A narrow-frontage
property with return flank to Mill Street, and gabled rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 2 windows; central raking
dormer with slate cheeks to a 4-pane sash, above 9-pane and
plain sashes, all to brick voussoirs with stone key, and with
V-joint stone quoins at either end of the front. The ground
floor has an early C20 Art Nouveau shop-front with deep-set
door off-centre, right, and curved returns to the plate
display windows, in very thin mullions with bases and
capitals, and decorative fretted heads, all to a deep fascia
with reeded cornice, and pilasters to heavy consoles to
pedimented heads. Main stack to the right, but further
full-height brick stack built in to the rubble of the rear
gable, which has coping and small kneelers.
The 3-storey return to Mill Street has, towards the left end,
in brick dressings, 9 above 12 and 12-pane sashes, and a C19
six-panel door.
INTERIOR: not generally inspected; a C19 straight-flight
staircase, with square newels, rises from the shop floor.
The delicately detailed display front is a notable survival.

Listing NGR: ST5484245631

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662980

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014