Wells House

Wells House is a mid-19th century building with additions from 1903, designed by architect C. F. A. Voysey for H. G. Wells. The house is two storeys high, featuring white roughcast walls and stone dressings. It has mullioned windows with leaded lights and a tiled roof. The entrance front includes a doorway with a Tudor arch and a two-storey canted bay made of stone to the left. There are mullioned windows on the first floor, and sloping buttresses at the corners. A two-storey block was added at right angles in the 1920s, which has a canted front. The ground rises to a first-floor garden porch on the right, flanked by hipped bay windows, while the left side features mullioned windows on both floors and a canted bay window with a balcony above. The end gable is tile hung, and there are tall roughcast chimneystacks.

Inside, the house contains arched doorcases and a staircase with two round-headed arches divided by a twisted column. It was at Wells House that H. G. Wells wrote several notable works, including 'Mankind in the Making', 'A Modern Utopia', and 'The War in the Air'.

Wells House is part of a group that includes Endcliffe House, St Paul's Vicarage, Vicarage Cottage, Sea Lady, and East Cliff House, located on Vicarage Road.