10, Market Place

WELLS

ST5445 MARKET PLACE 662-1/7/149 (South side) 12/11/53 No.10 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE Nos.8 AND 10)

GV II

House with shop, now hotel, shop below. Late C16, late C19 shop front. Probably timber-framed in part, rendered, hipped clay pantiled roof, brick chimney stacks. PLAN: a long narrow range set gable to street, and with a return frontage to the Market Place to the E; extended at the rear, and refronted in the early C19 and raised one floor. Extended at the rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, single bay. Shop front across ground floor, with 2-light display window and 6-panel door to right, panelled pilasters, this fascia with cornice on end brackets. Upper floors have 16 pane sash windows in plain openings. East side flank has an offset above first floor level, with a door towards the south end, and modern casements above this at second floor level. Extension to rear southwards, single-bay with casement window to ground floor and 4-pane sash window to first floor. Extending along most of the east side is a cast-iron verandah with glass roof, to full width of pavement, an early C20 bus shelter. Above this, at second floor, is a 3-light small-pane casement, and to the left there is a casement at ground floor and a 4-pane sash to first floor. Plain south (rear) gable with a single-storey C20 extension. INTERIOR: the cellar has a small bressumer fireplace. At the rear is a good stick stair with winders to a roughly rounded full-height newel. The first floor front room has 3 transverse beams. The roof and upper floor probably a later build. HISTORICAL NOTE: part of the Crown Hotel (qv). A photograph of 1902 shows the flank to the Market Place having a large display window, and no glazed lean-to. Built in the late C16 by a canon resident in the Canonical House (The Exchequer) on the site of the Town Hall (qv), in what was then his garden. (Town and Country Planning Working Papers: Scrase AJ: Wells: A Study of Town Origins: Bristol: 1982-).

Listing NGR: ST5502245760