Description

WELLS

ST5446 NEW STREET
662-1/6/182 (West side)
12/11/53 No.15
Northam House, with boundary wall

GV II

Detached house on corner site, partly occupied by dental
surgery. Possibly late C17, C18 refronting, modified. Rendered
over rubble with false ashlar lining, stone dressings painted,
Welsh slate roof between coped gables, brick end chimney
stacks.
PLAN: a symmetrical front range has two long wings enclosing a
very narrow courtyard, later mostly filled; these wings have
steep roofs, and that to the left (S) has a large ridge stack
near its outer end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 5 bays. Plinth, end
pilasters, cornice, plain parapet. Plain sash window with
exposed boxes in simple openings to centre bay a C20 door, up
one step, set in a semicircular arched opening with leaded
coloured glass fanlight, framed with Doric pilasters carrying
triglyph frieze and pediment. 2 roof dormers with segmental
roofs, having 12-pane sash windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending from SE corner southwards, a
local random rubble stone wall, starting at first-floor sill
level, with sweep down to about 2.5m high, with plain coping,
boarded gate in south end, the wall being an important element
in the street scene at this point. The site was developed by
C15-a house burnt down between 1402 and 1409, and not rebuilt
until c1515.
(Town and Country Planning Working Papers: Scrase AJ: Wells: A
Study of Town Origins: Bristol: 1982-: 67).

Listing NGR: ST5492246035

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663022

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)