Description

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET
662-1/7/129 (South side)
13/09/72 Nos.59 AND 61
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(South side)
No.59)

GV II

House on curved corner site, with shop. Early C18. Rendered
and colourwashed, Welsh slate roof on curve, hipped at west
end, shortened brick chimney stacks; No.61 has clay pantiled
roof between abutments.
EXTERIOR: No.59 three-storey, 3 bays, No.61 two storeys, 2
bays. No.59 has largely C19 shop front to ground floor, with 3
display windows, one subdivided, flanked by narrow pilasters,
under slim fascia with thin wide projection timber cornice,
preferable double doors in centre of curve replaced with late
C20 door and sidelight. Upper floors have 12-pane sash windows
with thick glazing bars.
No.61 mostly a C20 rebuild, with C20 windows, that to lower
bay 1 in apparent old position, then a blocked centre door and
new part-glazed door to right, to first floor are a metal
casement and a 12-pane sash window. Ground floor of No.59
modified for shop, access to upper floors now through No.61.
INTERIOR: stair from first to second floor, hardwood handrail,
turned newel and stick balusters, probably original. First
floor partitions altered, but second floor partitions and door
cases remain, as does an early C19 fireplace with cast-iron
hearth.

Listing NGR: ST5479945636

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662984

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Recommended Books

• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)