Number 1 With Front Boundary Railings

WELLS

ST5445 CATHEDRAL GREEN 662-1/7/21 (South side) 12/11/53 No.1 with front boundary railings

GV II

House on corner site. Mid to late C18. Rendered with Doulting stone dressings, Welsh slate roof behind parapets, brick chimney stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 5 bay east elevation facing Cathedral Church of St Andrew (qv). Plinth, plain end pilasters, cornice, parapet with plain coping. Sash windows in plain openings, 12-pane to ground and first floor and 6-pane to second floor, some windows being blind. Central 6-panel door with rectangular fanlight having ornamented cast-iron glazing bars, some radial, the whole framed with stone doorcase having attached Doric columns, full entablature and pediment. North return elevation to Cathedral Green in 3 bays to match. INTERIOR: not inspected, but lower windows have panelled shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: extending from the centre of the flank of No.25 Market Place (qv), starting with a quarter curve, extending along front of house about 2m away, with return along Cathedral Green, a low stone plinth with wrought-iron railings having necked tops to rails, and cast-iron finials to standards, with gate opposite doorway, adding to the setting of the house and the streetscape generally.

Listing NGR: ST5504645824