42, High Street

WELLS

ST5445 HIGH STREET 662-1/7/114 (North side) 13/09/72 No.42

GV II

House with shop, now shop and offices. Early C19 front to possibly C18 core. Brick with stone dressings, colourwashed, double Roman clay tiled roof between coped gables, brick chimney stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 bays. Later C20 shop front across whole of ground floor, with multiple display window, deep fascia, having two doorways in deep recess to right, above, sash windows in plain openings having gauged brick flat arch heads with keystones, 16-pane to first floor and 12-pane to second, moulded cornice and tall plain parapet with simple coping. INTERIOR: the ground floor totally modified, but some earlier features above, including a 3-light casement window to rear first floor, probably C18, mid-C19 staircase from first to second floor, some C18 panelling and a window seat, and a C19 cast-iron fireplace to a front office on the second floor. Roof not accessible.

Listing NGR: ST5485645685