West End House

KEYNSHAM

ST6568 HIGH STREET 739-1/4/41 (West side) 27/02/50 Nos.12 AND 12A West End House (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (West side) No.12 West End House)

GV II

House, now shops. Mid C17 with late C19 and mid C20 alterations. Colourwashed render with stone dressings, ashlar copings and gabled pantile roof with south end brick stack. PLAN: 3-unit plan; originally a domestic range to right with entrance to the left set next to carriage entry. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 4-window range. Ground floor from left has glazed late C19 shopfront, gated former carriage entry, C20 glazed entrance doorway and glazed mid C20 shopfront. First floor to right has ovolo-moulded cross-mullion windows with dripstones: 3 lights to outer bays, 2 lights to centre. First-floor left has C17 dripstoned opening with C19 cross-mullioned fenestration; plate-glass in all windows. 2 raking dormers with 3-light late C20 casements and pantiled roofs. INTERIOR: main doorway leads to mid C17 dog-leg staircase with plain, post-like newels, moulded handrail and bulbous vase balusters; 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion to south wall on half-landing and further blocked mullion (now boarded up) on west wall of stair-well; moulded door architrave on landing with bar stops. HISTORICAL NOTE: the building is believed to be on the site of the former Hospice of St John (Keynsham Abbey guesthouse). An early C19 drawing of the hospice by Buckler does not resemble the present West End House. Notable as one of the most earlier properties in Keynsham. (Lowe B and Whitehead M: The Changing Face of Keynsham in Old Photographs: Stroud: 1994-: 64).

Listing NGR: ST6535868807