Description

WELLS

ST5446 NEW STREET
662-1/6/178 (East side)
12/11/53 No.10
Wells Cathedral Junior School

GV II

Wide frontage house in row. c1899, but on site of earlier
buildings. Rendered with lining, ashlar dressings, Welsh slate
roof between coped gables, rendered brick chimney stacks.
PLAN: symmetrical double-depth plan with large front entrance
hall and lateral rear staircase.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 5 bays. Plinth, cornice,
plain parapet, bays 1 and 2 recessed slightly. Sash windows of
12 panes with exposed boxes in plain openings, part-glazed
6-panel door to lower bay 3, with painted ashlar surround of
Doric pilasters, entablature and pediment. Slightly set back
left of bay 1 a second door, early C18 6-panelled (2 glazed)
in plain opening. 4 flat-roofed dormer windows behind parapet.
INTERIOR: all the detailing is consistent with a late C18 or
early C19 date. The large elliptical panelled entrance hall
opens left to a salon with guilloche frieze and egg-and-dart
cornice, with central ceiling rosette, and to the right a
similar room, with a cupboard in Gothick style; here as
elsewhere in the house are doorcases and other trim with
reeded surrounds to square blocking-pieces. The rear room to
the left, the former kitchen, has a large brick fireplace with
bread oven, and a large 20-pane sash window, also an early
3-plank ledged door.
The straight-flight stair has decorative scrolled wrought-iron
balustrade and a wreathed handrail. The first-floor rooms have
similar detailing to those below, and that to the left has a
white marble fireplace; a rear large sitting room has an
imported fire surround, with glazed tiles.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the site was developed early, since at least
1268, the house known to be ruinous and rebuilt in 1433/34.
There is no overt evidence for earlier buildings.
(Town and Country Planning Working Papers: Scrase AJ: Wells: A
Study of Town Origins: Bristol: 1982-: 63).

Listing NGR: ST5496046076

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663018

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)