Description

WELLS

ST5446 ST THOMAS STREET
662-1/6/292 (South side)
No.92
and attached piers and gates

GV II

House at end of row, possibly former farmhouse. C17; extensive
C18 re-structuring, especially main range to street. Rendered
and colourwashed, clay pantiled roof with stepped coped east
gable, continuation to west, brick end and intermediate
chimney stacks.
PLAN: a single depth cross-passage front range, both rooms
heated; a straight-flight staircase runs parallel with and
immediately right of the passage, and beyond the left-hand
room is a smaller room, also with stack. To the rear, left, is
a long, lower wing, probably of the C17 or C18, continued as a
barn.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays, but windows to bays 2 and 3
blocked up, leaving only sills. Bay 1 has 2-light mullioned
casement window below and an 8-pane sash window with exposed
boxes above, lower bay 2 has a 6-panel door in recess, with
moulded architrave and semicircular timber hood over. Plain
east gable, with 5-light C20 casement window to ground floor.
Lower extension southwards at rear, 3 bays, with C20 doorways
below, but above there is a 3-light horizontal -bar casement
window of 2-lights to bay 2 and 3-light to bay 3. This range
has a coped outer gable, but is hipped at the inner end,
facing the roof of the main range; there is large ridge stack
near the street end.
The rear of the street range has four 3-light casement
flat-roofed dormers above two 12-pane sashes and a paired
12-pane with mullion box and to a cambered brick head at first
floor. At ground floor is a tripartite 8:12:8-pane sash and a
16-pane sash, separated by a C20 door, the last two under a
glazed conservatory.
The barn has a hipped roof, part of which continues as a porch
to a door at the end of the wing; the barn was largely
restructured in the late C20.
INTERIOR: the passage is stone-flagged. The right-hand room
has an Adamesque fireplace and a deep recess to elliptical
head, the left room has chimney breast with blocked fireplace,
which is opened to the kitchen beyond. These rooms have
panelled window shutters. There are some 4- and 6-panel doors.
Under the right-hand room is a basement with a wide segmental
brick vault, approached by a straight flight of stone steps
under the main stair. The upper floors and the wing were not
inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: on the north-east corner of the house a
small pedestrian gate, then a pair of late C19 boarded gates
with brick gate piers having stone bands and moulded caps. The
pavement crossing and the first part of the drive are in
granite setts.

Listing NGR: ST5555246169

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663118

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